Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...
A new wave of seismic science is emerging from the ocean floor—and it could help us predict the next big disaster. Using a ...
Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...
We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...
My team will be able to study the deep seafloor into the hadal zone, an area which reaches 6,000–11,000 meters in depth and makes up around 45% of the entire ocean. This habitat, full of deep ...
A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...
The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...
Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of ...
An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...