Global negotiations over the future of the deep sea are underway this week in Kingston, Jamaica where member states of the International Seabed Authority have gathered to continue shaping a regulatory ...

A new study has revealed how even the deepest seafloors are affected by the daily back-and-forth of the tides, and the change of the seasons, and that currents at the bottom of the ocean are far more ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

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. In ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

The assertion that more is known about the Moon (or Mars) than the deep ocean lacks scientific basis; a significant portion (23.4%) of the seafloor has been mapped at high resolution, exceeding the ...