Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Experts estimate there could be thousands of species down there that we’ve never seen before, but this new method of mapping could jump start new discoveries sooner rather than ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean ...

They suggested that as new sea-floor crust was formed around the rift in the midocean ridge, it magnetized differently, depending upon the polarity of the planet at that time. This supported the ...