Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where ...

With its top peaking just 6 meters (20 feet) below sea level, extending down to a depth of 24 meters, the Yonaguni Monument ...

A powerful magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook the ocean floor off the Oregon Coast, rattling nerves across the Pacific Northwest ...

New research reveals how ocean viruses burst algae cells, fueling a subsurface oxygen band through rapid microbial recycling.

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

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

“I had aquaria starting from age 5 or 6,” said Rocha. “And I decided to be a biologist when my third-grade science teacher brought in fish for a class. I’ve just always had this attraction to fish and ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 underwater monitoring structures from the deep reefs off the Pacific island of Guam, which have been gathering data there at depths up ...

A new search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is officially underway on Tuesday morning in the southern Indian Ocean. More than a decade after the plane vanished, investigators are again scanning ...

GUAM — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It's like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.

(CNN) — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.