"We need art to help us visualize the deep sea, and we drew inspiration for this piece directly from Alexander von Humboldt." The seamount is part of an ancient system of underwater volcanoes ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

The find, which was accomplished by a team of Canadians with the aid of state-of-the-art deep-sea submersibles, provides the first direct confirmation that the Pacific white skate (Bathyraja ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

A new study claims that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our own oceans. Despite covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, the vast majority of the deep sea remains unexplored.

One study published in Science earlier this month found that with 44,000 deep-sea dives, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed — which is roughly the size of Yosemite ...

“Ocean,” now on view on the coast of Denmark, fuses past with present, and art with science to raise urgent questions about our relationship with the sea. By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from ...

A new study published today in Science Advances shows just how little we know about the deep sea. According to the research, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor—an area ...