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

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

"The spontaneous formation of ion channels discovered in deep sea hydrothermal vents has direct implications for the origin ...

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

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

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

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life. NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on a quest to investigate whether the ...