"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

Ukrainian Navy officers and business owners in the port city pondered what Kyiv could gain from a truce after it pushed back Russian vessels and resumed commercial shipping.

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

China’s maritime capabilities in the Arctic remain limited, but domestic research activities suggest a concerted effort to ...

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

In the vast darkness of the deep sea, where finding a mate can be as challenging as surviving the crushing pressure, anglerfishes have evolved one of nature’s most extraordinary reproductive ...

Romania’s OMV Petrom has started drilling a first development well to commercialise natural gas reserves at the Pelican South ...

March 24, 2025: We’ve dug through some old memes in the hopes of uncovering some lost new Meme Sea codes to add to the list. What are the new Meme Sea codes? When taking on an ocean of the ...

A 2022 peer-reviewed study of available research by leading deep-sea scientists found “no or next to no scientific knowledge” for most of the seabed targeted for mining. NEW PLAYERS IN THE DEBATE ...

It was tested in the South China Sea, where the team attached it to an arm on a submersible, which they sent 3,400 metres (34,776 feet) deep. There, the gripper collected small marine creatures ...