China has officially approved the construction of a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, marking a significant ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Deep beneath the mountains of southern Albania, explorers have uncovered what is now confirmed to be the largest underground ...

Scientists will be able to work for up to a month in the facility that will be anchored 2,000 metres below the surface.

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an ancient underwater city has been quietly thriving for at least 120,000 years—but it may ...

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...

The Dutch contributing partners of the international MiningImpact3 consortium have been awarded 1.4 million euros by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

The Borealis Mud Volcano, a 7,000-year-old deep-sea formation in the Arctic Ocean, supports marine life and aids climate ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...