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, ...

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 ...

Back in 1997, the loudest ever underwater sound was recorded in the south Pacific Ocean. Dubbed the Bloop, theories on the source of the sound include everything from cracking icebergs to a gigantic ...

Back in the late 1990s, NOAA’s Acoustic Monitoring Project recorded a series of haunting, creepy noises from deep beneath the ocean’s surface (you can hear it in the audio above). When this recording ...

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 ...

With Halloween approaching, it's natural to wonder just a little bit more than usual about things that go "bump" in the night. But what about things that go "bloop" in the deep sea? Poltergeists, ...

After 15 long years, scientists have finally found an explanation for the creepy undersea "bloop" noise recorded in the 1990s by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NOAA ...

When the Bloop was first reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the media began to speculate that it was caused by a giant undersea creature. In 1997, the Bloop was picked up ...

Nearly 30 years after it was first recorded, people are still arguing about a single sound from the deep ocean. The “Bloop,” a strange, powerful underwater noise picked up in 1997, has been folded ...

In 1997, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a mysterious sound deep in the Pacific Ocean. The sound was nicknamed the Bloop, and its origins have been a matter of ...