Somewhere in the permanent darkness more than two miles beneath the Galápagos Islands, a remotely operated vehicle caught ...

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ...

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Dive beneath the surface of ancient seas and you’ll find a world teeming with giant reptiles, armour-plated fish and predators with jaws wide enough to swallow you whole.

Therefore, it is no surprise that people have found some truly strange things when exploring them. From ancient statues to ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is shifting deep beneath the waves. Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention ...

A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...

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 ...