Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

The loudest underwater sound ever recorded emanated from one of the most remote locations on Earth—Point Nemo in the Southern Pacific Ocean. This vast and isolated spot lies 2,689 kilometers (1,671 ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

In a startling revelation that left scientists astounded, an unusual noise, now referred to as the "bloop", was detected off the coast of Florida. Initially, speculation ran wild with theories ...

In 1997, ocean researchers recorded a massive underwater sound so loud it was picked up by sensors over 3,200 km apart. They named it the Bloop — and nobody could explain it. It was louder than whales ...

In 1977, researchers at Ohio State picked up this narrow-band radio signal emanating from somewhere beyond the constellation Sagittarius. It was exactly the kind of signal you’d expect from an ...