Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped ...

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly ...

More than 1,100 new marine neighbors The Ocean Census, a global biodiversity initiative funded by the Nippon Foundation, ...

The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction ...

Valve founder Gabe Newell is funding a €700 million research vessel designed to explore the ocean’s deepest regions and ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is sending a world-class submarine and a team of researchers to the sea floor, taking one of the deepest dives in human history. Crews spent ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

The Trump administration will dismantle a $368 million monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans, sparking alarm among scientists ...

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.