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

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only ...

This process identified two main “pathways” for deep-sea fish evolution that largely supported a century-old hypothesis that attempted to answer how animals evolved to live in these seemingly ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken ...

Deep-sea mining is highly controversial partly because the deep seabed is more or less untouched and still relatively poorly understood. "If you're not sure what's down there, then leave it alone," ...

The CIA leased a ship for real deep-sea mining, according to Jones ... Jones told reporters recently, but the animals were not back up to their normal densities. The slow pace of change in ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...