The deep sea is home to many different animals, some of which you may have never heard of before. One example is the ...

Hundreds of meters below the Atlantic’s surface, off the coast of the southeastern United States, sonar pulses bounced off ...

Somewhere between 200 and 3,000 metres below the surface of the Coral Sea, in canyons and on seamounts that had never been ...

Orpheus Ocean of New Bedford, Massachusetts is building robotic vehicles to descend into extreme depths to collect data from the seafloor.

Scientists exploring deep underwater canyons off the coast of Western Australia uncovered a hidden world packed with bizarre ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. The Axial Seamount is gonna blow, scientists say. The only ...

The world’s oceans are on the brink of a major disaster if controversial plans to start deep sea mining in international waters go ahead as early as next year, an expert has warned. Dr. Sandor Mulsow, ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...