Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

Leticia Carvalho heads a global authority that’s been struggling to set rules for a decade. President Trump’s aggressive push on ocean mining makes her task more urgent.

New Zealand's earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine ...

A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

Comets are a trickier prospect. The first spots of direct evidence, collected in the 1990s by the Giotto spacecraft and later ...

Remotely operated vehicles saw significant new species wins in 2026, and they're changing the way we explore the deep sea.

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The deep ocean is about as mysterious as the depths of outer space, and it's home to some bizarre finds, from tiny angelic creatures to giant worms.

Geologists have mapped a massive freshwater aquifer system buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off the U.S. East Coast, with an estimated volume so large that some popular comparisons suggest it ...

Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

A deep-sea camera captured the first-ever shark recorded in Antarctic waters — a 10- to 13-foot sleeper shark swimming 1,608 feet below the surface.

The Corner Rise Seamounts (CRS), located in an area beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), are recognized biodiversity hotspots protected from bottom-contact fishing by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries ...