April 4 (UPI) -- SpaceX's Fram2 mission, the first crewed mission to ever orbit Earth's North and South poles, is set to ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

Photos published by the U.S. Navy show the Nimitz was operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, which is the U.S. Third Fleet's ...

Passengers aboard an Antarctic cruise were thrown around by giant waves while the ship passed through the Drake Passage in March 2025. Travel blogger Lesley Anne Murphy captured dramatic footage of ...

People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy ...

Sea otters, or Enhydra lutris (their scientific name), have recently been spotted making kelp forests their new home. Sea ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

Maritza Castro and other researchers react with excitement at images being picked up by a remotely operated vehicle along the Antarctic sea floor. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) Esquete and ...

one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific Ocean, eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made ...

For centuries, much of the ocean floor has remained a mystery. Now, thanks to data from NASA’s SWOT satellite, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps ever, revealing hidden underwater ...

GEBCO bathymetric data - digital mapping of the ocean floor in layman's terms - observed by Dr Lyne pinpoints the yellow spec at Latitude: 33.02°S, Longitude: 100.27°E, aligning with the ...