In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid where the gravitational force is weaker than normal, causing the sea level to ...

An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Explore SpaceX’s powerful Starship and its mission to reach Mars and beyond. ExtremeTech breaks down its design, goals, and ...

Known as the Indian Ocean gravity hole, or geoid low, it was first discovered in 1948 by Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, who developed one of the earliest gravimeters for ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

Due to its flying wing configuration, the B-2 Spirit is nearly impossible to detect. The recent dispatch of B-2 bombers to ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

For centuries, mariners have reported extraordinary glowing waters, known as milky seas, previously dismissed as myth. A new ...