Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

A recent deep-sea expedition into the Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean led to an astonishing discovery: a massive Pacific Sleeper Shark was filmed at an astounding 1,400 meters below the surface.

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

Norwegians haul up from the deep a sea lily, a living fossil previously ... wells up periodically and spreads laterally to form new ocean crust, a process he calls seafloor spreading.

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a ... for an improved understanding of deep-sea currents and tides, which affect life in the abyss, as well as geologic processes like plate ...

Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved understanding of deep-sea currents and tides, which affect life in ...

The advent of sonar allowed for the first in-depth surveys of the deep ocean floor, and these studies drove geologists to finally accept a radical theory proposed decades earlier and dismissed for ...

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. During an era of silent movies ...

The Deep-Ocean Floor The discovery that it is growing outward from the mid-ocean ridges has suggested that it is formed In huge plates that act as units in the dynamic processes of the earth's ...