This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...

Beyond aiding human activities, the mapping will also illuminate the ocean for natural scientists, identifying underwater mountains called seamounts and the smaller abyssal hills. The maps will ...

Now, the company has returned to the southern Indian Ocean 1,500 kilometres west of Perth ... Multibeam sonar, in contrast, maps the seafloor topography by emitting multiple sonar beams in ...

A tiny windswept island in one of the remotest corners of the western Indian Ocean, thousands of miles from the shores of any continent, has emerged as a symbol of India’s growing maritime ...

For centuries, much of the ocean floor has remained a mystery. Now, thanks to data from NASA’s SWOT satellite, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps ever ... By studying these small ...

More than a decade on from the day it vanished, the search has resumed for missing Flight MH370, and it's believed the jet could be stuck in an eerie 'black hole' in the Indian Ocean. In the early ...

Every year around this time, Argentine waters experience a troubling phenomenon-a massive influx of China's distant-water fishing fleet, widely recognised as the world's most egregious offenders ...

However, the short-range weak force exhibits some pull, and the neutrinos near zero mass leaves just enough for gravity’s grasp to hold on to ... detects neutrinos by imaging Cherenkov radiation on ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

Beneath the Indian Ocean lies a gravitational enigma — a ... “It is the lowest geoid/gravity anomaly on Earth, and so far, no consensus existed regarding its source.” ...