CANBERRA, Australia – The deep-sea sonar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may not have found the plane but will reveal more about how land beneath the Indian Ocean formed over millions of years ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers have pieced together what’s thought to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and ...

A technology commonly used to map the bottom of the deep ocean can also detect gas seeps in the water column with remarkably high fidelity, according to scientists. This finding, made onboard the NOAA ...

The East Coast of the United States isn't the first place that comes to mind as being at risk of tsunamis, but new sonar maps are now helping to show that these risks do exist. For about the past five ...

You’ve seen shaded sonar maps in chart plotters before—Furuno and Simrad have had them since 2008. But certainly not with the detail coming out today in offerings from Navionics’ Platinum and Garmin’s ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Science. Followed categories will be added to My News. The City of Chester was travelling from San Francisco to Eureka, California, in 1888 when it smashed into ...

Hydrographic maps reveal subsurface features with the potential to hold fish, the degree to which largely depends on the ...

Space may be the final frontier of exploration, but there’s plenty of Earth left unmapped, too—from the giant canyon recently discovered beneath Greenland to American waters that have been left ...

For the first time in the short history between the sinking of the luxury ocean liner Titanic and now, the wreck site has been completely mapped out using sonar imaging. This feat was accomplished ...

NORFOLK, Va.NORFOLK, Va. — World War II shipwrecks off North Carolina and Civil War shipwrecks in Virginia are being analyzed with sonar technology so sophisticated that the public could one day view ...

The Titanic was the paradigm of something too big to fail, yet too ill-fated to succeed. It inspired songs, books and hit movies, most notably one starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as ...