Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

"Anyone that doesn't want to do deep-sea mining is implicitly saying we need to do more land-based mining." Jovana Jovanova ...

China is planning a massive deep-sea station 6,561ft below the surface of highly contested waters in the South China Sea. The research centre, described as a "deep-sea space station" in a report ...

A swarm of submersible drones will be used to monitor and provide data on offshore artificial reefs that are intended to attract marine life in otherwise barren sections of sea, officials said Monday.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

A rare deep-sea fish regarded as a harbinger of doom has washed up on a beach in the Canary Islands. The oarfish was discovered by beachgoers in Lanzarote on 10 February, sparking fears among the ...

Another deep-sea dweller washed up on a Carlsbad beach this week and its body now joins millions of other rare specimens being preserved for research at a lab in San Diego. Jordan Coronel came ...

Animals living in one of Earth’s most extreme environments—beneath the bottom of the sea—are not just making the best of the situation, according to new research. The animals are actually ...