A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea M ...

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands ... and we've only explored about 3 percent of its seafloor. Researchers at the Ocean Exploration Trust are pushing the frontiers ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

Marie Tharp, studying echo soundings, discovers that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge conceals a long rift ... and spreads laterally to form new ocean crust, a process he calls seafloor spreading.

The speed at which new ocean floor is created varies from one location on the ocean ridge to another ... At the East Pacific rise, which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...