Director Ridley Scott may have just found his next alien. An extremely deep-dwelling and spooky-looking sea creature was discovered inside a vast trench off South American shores. This discovery, ...

Commercial mining of the sea floor could soon get the green light. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a body associated with the United Nations that oversees deep-sea mining in international ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, sports a shaggy mop of hair, a rakish beard and a leather bomber jacket with a palm-sized, poly-metallic nodule in its pocket. Aside from setting off metal ...

Carbon storage in Earth’s oceans is controlled by deep-sea mixing processes, but the details have proved difficult to test. Ambitious efforts to track ocean mixing using dye have now demonstrated the ...

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 new study has revealed how even the deepest seafloors are affected by the daily back-and-forth of the tides, and the change of the seasons, and that currents at the bottom of the ocean are far more ...

A new report by environmental groups lays out a case for banning deep sea mining—and explains why the real solution to humanity’s energy crisis might just be sitting in the trash. Deep sea mining is ...

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) At the last minute of the recent International Seabed Authority meeting in Jamaica (which ended July 29) ...

A giant group of crabs filmed 1,350 feet below the surface in San Antonio Canyon. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute / YouTube A deep sea robot is exploring remote underwater canyons. And the biodiverse ...

More than 5,000 animal species previously unknown to science live in a pristine part of the deep sea. Their home — called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — sits in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean ...