The Trump administration is floating the idea of mining the seafloor off Alaska’s coast. The U.S. Department of the ...

A centuries-old Spanish galleon and its booty remain on the ocean floor while Spain, Colombia, Indigenous groups and American ...

The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...

Scientists say grooves on a rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea may have been made by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake.

Deep in the ocean, resting on the seafloor, there is a strange ecosystem – one built on the bodies of the dead. Join us on a tour of a whale fall. Thanks again to our friends at Nautilus Live! Learn ...

Scattered across coral-strewn reefs and sunken cliffs, Bermuda’s centuries-old shipwrecks beckon explorers to uncover ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Scientists define marine darkwaves - sudden drops in underwater light - and examine their effects on plants, animals, and ...

Marie Tharp's topographical maps increased our understanding of both the ocean floor and the processes that move the earth's ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling ...

An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, scientists are starting to understand when and how it formed.