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A group of scientists ventured into an adventure and performed one of the first deep-sea mining activities on the Pacific ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors. According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only ...

LURKING beneath the ocean’s surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, ...

Their location at the bottom of the ocean makes these muddy deposits notoriously difficult to map. Furthermore, contemporary sedimentary deposits do not necessarily stem from modern conditions ...

The former is hidden beneath kilometers of cold, dark, crushingly pressurized ... accurate model of what the bottom of the ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

In July 2024, the team finally published their findings in Nature Geoscience, calling the phenomenon dark oxygen. It’s unclear what’s causing it — Sweetman is preparing to investigate further next ...

Everyone's favourite nature narrator is entering into his 100th year and releasing a brand-new documentary. But this is not a ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.