Watling first saw the coral species aboard a submersible in 2006, he said. The research team took photographs of the colony ...

While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only ...

NOAA is holding public hearings this week to vet a rule to speed permitting of exploration and mining of mineral-rich nodules ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration.

Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology ...

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface. Sometimes it's called the midnight zone because it's too deep for sunlight to reach. Most animals here are much smaller ...

The discovery challenges "long-standing assumptions about life's potential at extreme depths," study authors said.

Deep sea mining for rare earth elements could start as early as 2026, even as 38 countries have called for a moratorium on it ...

Debate over the Trump administration’s plan to make it easier for companies to extract minerals from the ocean floor took a ...

Protestors call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining on June 7, two days before the start of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France. Communications Inc.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, discoveries and findings in the deep ocean in 2020, abetted by robotic explorers, continued to impress ocean scientists.