When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

The supergiant bathynomid is a deep-sea isopod famous for surviving more than five years without food. Despite residing in an ...

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

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in ...

The Trump administration plans to scrap a $368-million investment in deep-sea ocean monitoring that is critical to monitoring ...

A look at the quest to mine the bottom of the ocean for valuable minerals, the connection between light pollution and ...

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

Scientists warn deep-sea mining recovery depends on habitat, and some losses in vents and seamounts may be irreversible.

The ocean’s deepest reaches harbor some of the most alien and terrifying life forms on Earth. Far below where sunlight fades to eternal darkness, creatures have evolved in ways that seem to defy ...

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

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