Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Scientists map microplastics across ocean depths, revealing their deep spread, persistence, and potential climate impact.

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

The Falmouth-based post-rock group Deep Six has just released a new album titled “Outer Sphere." This album is the group's third release, following “Fathomless” and the instrumental “The Abyss.” ...

When told about a strange, fanged fish that had washed ashore on an Oregon beach, the Seaside Aquarium folks knew what kind ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could ...

SuBastian did it again! Roughly 600 meters beneath the icy waves near the South Sandwich Islands, the remotely operated ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...