Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

The sighting “highlights the importance of modern, cost-effective technologies to survey the deep sea and locate these lost ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...