A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a ...

Scientists discovered a new crustacean species in the Atacama Trench, 8,000 meters deep, revealing the Hadal zone as a ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the deepest creature ever recorded, found at an astounding depth of ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

While many shark species can be observed from beaches and boats in oceans all over the world – there are some that are so ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine ...

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

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...