Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

There was an era of horror and thriller cinema where animals like alligators and sharks attacking and killing humans had ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Tokyo set to make world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare-earth-rich mud from a depth of around 6,000m ...

Scientists have found a hidden world deep beneath the Arctic Ocean that is changing how we understand life in the deep sea ...

Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly ...

A call for the federal government to halt plans to lease some 35.5 million acres of sea floor east of the Mariana Islands got ...

Scientists exploring the deep Pacific Ocean have uncovered a strange “yellow brick road” on the seabed near Hawaii. The ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, a new study suggests, a warming event led to the release of carbon dioxide from deep in the ...