A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Satellite images from late December 2024 revealed a stunning phytoplankton bloom off the Patagonian Shelf, illustrating the ...

"It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck," oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents and could have a disastrous effect on the climate, a new report warns. The deep-water flows which drive ocean ...

NASA images reveal the journey of this ... A-23A became trapped in a Taylor column—a rotating current—above a bump on the ocean floor called the Pirie Bank. "It's exciting to see A23a on ...

A new satellite has mapped Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail, a new study reveals. . The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface ... about ocean currents, nutrient transport ...

The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas into the Irminger Sea, fueling Atlantic Ocean currents.

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth ... A joint collaboration between NASA and the USGS, Landsat satellites ...