Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

Scientists exploring the ocean off the New Zealand coast believe they have discovered 100 new marine species. A 21-strong team on the Ocean Census expedition have been mapping and investigating ...

One wish later, the Hyjinx makes a stormy entrance into Shenxiu's life. It brings her to the magical underwater Deep Sea restaurant, which serves a clientele of fish- and walrus-people.

Researchers say the new footage of the deep sea fish may be the first live sighting of the creature in daylight near the ocean's surface A creature from the ocean's dark depths made the trek to ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

more than 2,500 meters below the ocean surface, seawater gushes down through the plates, deep into the Earth’s crust, and comes out through hydrothermal vents—underwater hot springs that release ...

"This latest evidence makes it even more clear why governments must act now to stop deep sea mining before it ever starts," said Greenpeace campaigner Louise Casson. While few expect a final text ...

Marine geologist Robert Ballard (b. 1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands ...