Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

The deep sea is vast, dark, and almost completely unexplored filled with alien life, crushing pressure, and silence that ...

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

From deep-diving whales to jellyfish with long trailing tentacles, these deep-sea creatures highlight how much we still have to learn about life in the ocean’s depths.

Today, technological advances in deep-sea exploration bring us to the threshold of a new endeavour—one that calls upon the best of our collective capabilities.

Marketplace contributor Daniel Ackerman says deep-sea mining companies are innovating for how to efficiently mine rare Earth minerals — but scaling this work is still a big question.

China's Meng Xiang drill ship aims to reach Earth's Moho, advancing deep-sea exploration and asserting maritime power in the South China Sea.

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Trump has opened the deep sea for business, risking fragile environments we know nothing about Defying international law, the Trump admin wants to move ahead with deep sea mining that threatens ...

Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international waters Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...