A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck offshore Los Angeles County at 9:40 p.m. PST on February 22, 2026, rattling coastal ...

Japan has pulled off a stunning deep-sea breakthrough, hauling up rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 meters below the ...

The first shark ever documented in Antarctic waters was captured on camera at 1,600 feet deep in near-freezing temperatures.

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 new study on deep-sea biodiversity revealed over 500 new species — and it couldn't have come at a more critical time.

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 deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.

A team of researchers have collected hundreds of previously unknown species to understand the impact of deep-sea mining ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

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 ...

(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.