Marie Tharp’s maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor did more than just reveal an underwater mountain range—they transformed the ...

A 2021 study published in the journal Nature suggested the key to the Atlantic's expansion lies beneath a large underwater mountain range in the middle of the ocean. The set of mostly undersea ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface ...

The nearly 170,000 square miles of ocean around Ascension ... foot underwater volcano in the mid-Atlantic ridge, one of the world’s longest mountain ranges. On August 24, the Ascension Island ...

There are holes in their knowledge regarding these mysterious ocean-bed perforations — so experts are asking for help. Scientists have been left flabbergasted over a series of mysterious holes ...

At the turn of the millennium, researchers uncovered a site near the summit of an underwater mountain range in the ...

Instead of forcing the ground up, the two plates in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are actually moving apart in opposite directions. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes ...

Photos show the holes interrupted what is otherwise a solid, flat sandy surface on the Atlantic seafloor. NOAA Ocean Exploration photos Scientists exploring a submerged mountain range in the Mid ...

First, the once populous fish was decimated by decades of Atlantic overfishing ... a flaky white cod," he said. Ocean warming means one species might expand its range, another could contract ...