NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon ... "You get a swathe, almost like a 3D view directly, and that's really what we want to map the ocean ...

Improved maps of the seafloor are essential to safe navigation, protecting the marine environment and helping us understand Earth’s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor ...

With a call as loud as a large ship, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are among the noisiest creatures in the sea. For some seismologists who monitor earthquakes by recording seafloor vibrations, ...

It's a sailboat that will map the ocean-floor in our area over the next month. "They are really going to contribute to a lot of great science. A lot of improvements to warning about storm surge ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...