and north through the Pacific Ocean. 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 ...

In 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii ... about the formation of other deep-sea features, including underwater ridges ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...