A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

Descending into the darkness, surrounded by the silent expanse of the ocean bottom, one encounters a creature straight out of ...

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

Puget Sound might be sheltered from feeling many strong winds directly, but it’s not immune to their ripple effects. For ...

Andy Haverly aims to save Earth by using a 1960s project to extract geological materials from the ocean floor.

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

For the most part, The Bottom of director Irwin Allen’s Sea is merely the setting for the kind of emotional calisthenics that might just as easily break out 100 feet from the tip of Mount Everest.