Experts estimate there could be thousands of species down there that we’ve never seen before, but this new method of mapping ...

People had no idea about the depths of the world's oceans but this video depicts the same by comparing Earth's tallest ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The life that flourishes down there is also downright alien. A new study has recovered a plethora of never-before-seen microbes from areas of the ocean floor that include the Mariana Trench. Analyzing ...

Deep under the sea, pipelines and cables carrying fuel, power and communications are strewn on the ocean floor like a central ... that collects data from a wide variety of sources and trains ...

Meanwhile, charting the ocean floor has presented its own daunting challenges. The intense water pressure found deep in the abyss can crush most equipment, and the seafloor is essentially hidden ...

I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea M ...

After all, it provided a unique opportunity to explore the sea floor in an area of the ocean previously cut off to humans. Despite their excitement, the team on the Schmidt Ocean Institute vessel ...

It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

"We took a step back and recognised that the ocean, and particularly beneath the surface of the ocean was one of the last remaining blind spots for humanity," said Sean Wolpert, the president of DEEP.