Numerous people flocked to the Oregon Coast near Yachats overnight on Nov. 15 and 16 in an effort to help a stranded humpback ...

The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Mariana Trench in the western ...

A coalition of international researchers has found a remarkable treasure trove of new species in the icy depths of the ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan’s volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...

A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge has been declared one of the oddest finds made during a deep-sea expedition near Antarctica ...