The captain sounds the alarm. The waters around the ship rumble. Strange lights from deep below inch closer and closer to you ...

A strange, big-eyed “dragonfish” hidden under Antarctic ice for 780,000 years has finally been discovered — and it’s already at risk.

The deep sea is integral in ocean cycling processes that carry nutrients and oxygen all over our planet. This underexplored realm is the basis of food chains that sustain billions of people and helps ...

It’s impossible to ignore a new discovery known affectionately as the death ball. And there’s a good reason to pay attention ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the ...

If you traveled to the deepest points of Earth, what would you find? Lost cities, mythical sea monsters, rivers of gold? Probably not. But there is still a lot to discover. So join me as we travel ...

The drilling expedition, conducted aboard the research vessel Chikyu, set a Guinness World Record for the deepest scientific ocean drilling ever achieved. Core samples revealed a roughly ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

A U.S. federal agency is considering allowing companies to lease more than 45.7 million hectares (113 million acres) of ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

The administration has argued the U.S. fishing industry is hampered by overregulation compared with foreign competitors.