From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

As our maps of the moon ... could flourish even in the ocean’s sunless depths and “changed our understanding of life on Earth ...

At this ridge, the Earth’s crust pulls apart due to the motion of tectonic plates, allowing molten rock to rise up and shape new crust. Plates moving apart have built a chain of peaks called a ...

It’s called the Mid-Ocean Ridge, and it is just over 40,000 miles long. In contrast, that’s much longer than the longest mountain range on land, which is the Andes. While the Andes are impressive in ...