The surface of the Gulf of Aqaba appears calm for most of the year, with little to suggest what sits far below. Nearly 1,800 ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami.

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...

A look at the heavy-duty process keeping the ocean floor at Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf healthy for future generations.

Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030, but is it a possible endeavour – and what have they found so far?

"This is the first time we've had a unified picture of these systems across the entire Antarctic margin," co-author Dr. David Amblà from the University of Barcelona told Futura. "They're not just ...

A new underwater energy storage system could help solve renewable power’s biggest challenge of storing excess electricity.

Scientists found ancient freshwater trapped beneath the ocean floor off New England, preserved for thousands of years.

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

The dumbo octopus is an adorable little octopus that gets its name from their Dumbo-like ears. Read here to learn more.