For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a vast and mysterious frontier has remained largely unexplored right here on Earth—the ocean floor. Despite covering ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation has released new footage of the OceanGate Titan submersible over a year after its ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy was exploring the other "final frontier" — the sea. A series of underwater habitats called "Sealabs" were constructed for scientific exploration on the ocean floor. JOHN F ...

SCATTERED ACROSS the ocean floor are trillions of lumps of nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. Companies have long wanted to mine them: these “critical minerals” are needed in vast quantities to ...