While scientists have known that tiny microbes have been prospering in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, a new voyage ...

Researchers have discovered a highly specialized community of sea creatures living 6 miles beneath the ocean surface—deeper ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can make it hard to survive. Scientists ...

As the race for critical minerals heats up, companies and governments have set their sights on the mineral-rich deep sea. But ...

When researchers discovered evidence of “dark oxygen” last year, the news spread around the world, but the biggest challenge ...

On this week's episode of the Best of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: digging through dino poop, lead made Romans dumber, elephants use tools, and happy rats ...

Discovery of deep-sea chemosynthesis-based communities suggests more life forms exist in unexplored ocean depths, according to a study by Chinese researchers ...

The talks, in Jamaica, are before the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the only organization that can legally approve mining in ocean areas beyond countries’ national jurisdictions, according to ...