"It's getting ready to erupt"—one of America's most active volcanoes has the country on edge. It is called the Axial Seamount ...

A Boston University led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals and sea creatures Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover ...

An underwater volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon is displaying signs of a potential eruption, University of Washington (UW) researchers found. The volcano, Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

The Gorringe seamount, located 200 kilometres off the Portuguese coast in the Atlantic Ocean, is the tallest underwater mountain in western Europe. Formed where the African and Eurasian tectonic ...

An active underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt mid-to-late 2026. The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea, ...

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up ...

Over the course of my career, I have had the great fortune to bear witness to the grandeur of the 4,901 square miles of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of ...

Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and found a massive underwater mountain. Using a sonar system, the researchers digitally mapped the seafloor of the area and ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators – with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows. The study – led by the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government ...

Researchers have discovered a pair of seamounts on the ocean floor that serve as inflow and outflow points for a vast plumbing system that circulates water through the seafloor. The seamounts are ...