Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might support life. Now ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

The discovery was made in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work ...

From a distance, this map of the ocean looks complete. In truth, knowledge of the seabed remains patchy. As of 2025, little more than one quarter of the seabed has been measured directly. The ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre golden orb at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Alaska, nearly 3,300 meters below the surface. This strange find was made by a remotely operated underwater ...

OCEAN CITY, Md. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began another round of dredging at the Ocean City Inlet this week, aiming to remove sand that has built up near the West Ocean City Harbor entrance ...

In a recent study, researchers explored 30,000 years of changes in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Their findings — which made use of cosmic dust buried in the seafloor — could help scientists understand ...