Imagine you’re invited to the beach, but you’re hesitant. Sure, it could be fun in the sun, but the thought of the vastness ...

The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Deep sea mining, which is still in its experimental stage, is the process of retrieving valuable mineral deposits, such as copper, nickel, zinc and rare earth elements, from the seabed at depths ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered and, so far, the only area where it has been found. The Nansei Islands., also ...

Images from the exciting encounter, which occurred 2152 meters (1.34 miles) deep in the Weddell Sea, show the vibrantly-colored squid with scratches and sucker marks on its body.

Nodules containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese rest top these core samples taken from the deep ocean floor, San Diego, Calif., June 8, 2021. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE ...

Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

While on a shark research expedition off the coast of Tenerife, marine biologists said they captured the first images of a live adult black seadevil anglerfish near the ocean’s surface.

During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates. ... Solvin Zankl/mauritius images GmbH, via Alamy.