Beneath the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean lies a strange and puzzling phenomenon—a massive gravitational anomaly that has stumped scientists for decades. This anomaly, known as the Indian Ocean ...

A map modelling the geoid surface. The map shows how water elevation and distribution would change by removing the effects of tides and currents. Credit: European Space Agency A map modelling the ...

For years, researchers have tried to pinpoint how an area deep in the Indian Ocean with lower gravitational pull came to be. A team in India may have figured it out. The area in question is called the ...

South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of Earth’s strangest depressions, a gravity hole so deep it has puzzled ...