For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national ...

Three-month expedition will plumb uncharted depths of eastern Pacific in quest for new life forms and insights into quakes ...

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

There she met Tim, a sub-sea engineer and submersible pilot who offered her a tour of his submarine Their shared passion for ...

Scientists are a little closer to understanding what goes on deep beneath the surface of our oceans.

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...

Advocates from across the Pacific will gather online Tuesday morning to share strategies for opposing federal deep-sea mining ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment surface and grazes on bacteria or organic materials in the sediment. It does ...

Far beneath Antarctic waters, scientists have found a killer sea sponge with a near perfect ball shape that grabs and eats passing animals. It is the star of dozens of newly confirmed deep sea species ...