The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finalized new regulations Wednesday that consolidate deep-sea mining ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

The existence of a previously unknown source of oxygen would call into question long-held assumptions about the origins of ...

The Atacama Trench, stretching over 3,700 miles in length and reaching depths of more than 26,000 feet, is a place of extremes. Here, the Nazca and South American tectonic plates collide in slow ...

More than 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to allow deep-sea mining ...

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth, yet most of it remains unexplored. Beneath the surface lie places of total ...

A joint China-Chile expedition aims to explore a 435-mile stretch of the Atacama Trench, ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

In the deep blue sea, there are always unknowns waiting to be discovered. In 2025, China's HOVs dived into the heavily ...

In collaboration with Chilean researchers, Chinese research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao (Exploration No. 1) will, for the first ...

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

Activists from Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and beyond announced Tuesday they collected more than ...