But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

After a long, winding road of tests, researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and other ...

A viral deep sea mystery took more than two years to solve because the ocean still hides life in forms scientists barely ...

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery concerning a strange golden object found miles below the sea surface isn't an egg or sponge ...

Researchers have reported three significant deep-sea breakthroughs: a thriving subseafloor ecosystem within volcanic crust, the resolved identity of the 'golden orb,' and fossil evidence of colossal ...

Trial described as bridging 'last mile' from deep-sea equipment development to engineering application, suggesting deployment ...

The Antarctic sea, where glaciers drift across the surface. What kind of world lies 1,300 meters below the surface?

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists ...

From the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment led the charge of ...

Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...

The world’s oceans are filled with never-ending surprises. Some shock. Some awe. And some are still waiting to be discovered.