While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of ...

Impossible Metals Bahrain has applied for a deep-sea mining exploration contract with the International Seabed Authority (ISA ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

A push to extract minerals from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is gaining momentum. Here is how it works and why it has ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration.

But after years of meticulous research, teams of scientists, including MBARI senior scientist Steven Haddock, who led that ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and ...

The ocean basins are so vast and deep that they hold about 97 percent of the Earth's water. Sea water that's trapped in ...

It's a rule of thumb -- or fin -- for the ocean: The deeper you dive, the weirder things get. Now, a new exhibit lets visitors jump straight into the strangest layer of the ocean, bringing the ...