A mile beneath the Red Sea, a submersible found what looked like a dark mirror on the seafloor — an underwater lake so salty that creatures entering it can die in seconds. These brine pools can ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

An underwater "video-acoustic" camera system recorded life on the Arctic seafloor for days, finding elusive marine life.

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...

New research has revealed how an underwater avalanche grew more than 100 times in size causing a massive trail of destruction as it traveled 2000km across the Atlantic Ocean seafloor off the North ...

The most significant archaeological discoveries of the next decade probably won't come from a desert excavation or a jungle survey. They'll come from the seafloor. Advances in underwater robotics, ...

More than 400 underwater sites in the United States are potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance -- weapons that did not explode upon deployment. More than 400 underwater sites in the United ...

Learn how researchers used underwater cameras and hydrophones to observe life moving naturally through one of the least studied ecosystems beneath Arctic ice.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA's advanced seafloor mapping technology has revealed what is hidden ...

Underwater avalanches are powerful natural events that happen all the time under the surface of the ocean. They are impossible to see and extremely difficult to measure, which means we know little ...