Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

A new study reveals that 99.999% of the deep ocean - defined as depths beyond 200 metres - remains unexplored and mysterious. Despite over 44,000 dives since 1958, scientists have only visually ...

One ambitious company has a plan to establish a colony of adventurous humans beneath the sea, but scientists have some doubts ...

Now, researchers at the Heriot-Watt University have traced its formation event using 117-million-year-old “underwater mud ...

A new study finds that humans have visually explored just 0.001 per cent of the deep seafloor - leaving vast areas unknown ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust's (OET) research vessel Nautilus has departed on its first expedition of 2025 to study underwater ...

Thousands of feet underwater lie potentially lucrative ... One study found sounds from a deep-sea mine could reverberate through the ocean for more than 300 miles, disturbing whales, dolphins ...

New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

One of the Pacific Ocean’s lesser-known volcanoes will blow its vent in the coming months, causing 10,000 earthquakes in one day. Here’s what scientists are saying.

A remotely operated submersible saw the “semi-gelatinous” animal lying on the ocean floor and “flying underwater.” Take a ...

Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, raising  the frequency of ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...