A bizarre “road” was just spotted deep in the Pacific Ocean… and what caused it is nothing short of mind-bending.

OPINION: The lack of proven commercially viable ores, the immaturity of crust mining technology and the potential to harm marine life make this a foolhardy endeavor, Andrew D. Thaler writes.

The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes continuous erosion from movements in the Earth's mantle. Fragments of the ...

Chinese scientists and engineers have pushed far beyond a string of US military bases known as the second island chain, reaching a seamount in the western Pacific Ocean 2,000 metres (6,561 feet) below ...

Abstract: Seamounts are ubiquitous manifestations of underwater volcanism that rise above the surrounding ocean floor by more than a few hundred or thousand meters. Any temporal and spatial variations ...

Investigating a large spire of lava at the top of a seamount off the coast of Santiago Island, Galapagos (photo credit Dan Fornari; WHOI MISO Facility) The Galápagos Archipelago consists of several ...

Global map showing gravitational variations caused by topographic changes. In purple higher features like seamounts and in green lower features like rift zones. There are better maps of the Moon’s ...

When you digest the fact that humans know less about the seamounts dotting our planet’s oceans than about the vast expanse of outer space, it might take a moment to sink in. Only a fraction of these ...

A reef parrotfish on Vitoria Seamount. (Photo by Hudson Pinheiro © California Academy of Sciences) The Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelago is the most eastward point ...

Thousands of feet below the ocean surface lies a world of unimagined wonder — translucent squids, massive coral stretching out like branches of a tree, and colonial organisms called siphonophores with ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

It’s a nutrient-rich underwater landscape — more than 3.1 million acres — with ancient volcanos and deep canyons, where deep-sea corals are thousands of years old and woolly mammoth bones rest among ...