Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Scientists have shared footage from a rare sighting of a bluntnose sixgill shark spotted near the Phoenix Islands in the ...

Dozens of these otherworldly creatures may be entirely new to science, never before documented by humans. The images and ...

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently announced among the top 10 remarkable new marine species of 2024 by the ...

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

The sighting “highlights the importance of modern, cost-effective technologies to survey the deep sea and locate these lost ...