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

In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute ...

but the recent combination of advances in underwater-mining technologies and steep increases in the value of gold and other precious metals has triggered an aggressive push to mine the deep ocean ...

Tech - The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth’s surface, yet we have explored only a fraction of its depths. Long-term ocean ...

In the dark of the deep ocean floor, where sunlight seldom reaches ... that have been around since the dinosaurs. Like an underwater rainforest, the colonies provide food and shelter for ...