A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

The ocean’s depths hold countless mysteries, with new discoveries regularly challenging our understanding of marine science and human history. From ancient artifacts to unexplained phenomena, these ...

MH370’s renewed search uses autonomous vessels, deep-sea robots, and high-resolution sonar in a tightly focused Indian Ocean ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about human history and geology. Every so often, sonar technology or daring deep ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

The ocean abundant with undiscovered resources is an important frontier for humanity’s exploration of the Earth. As the pressure on global supply and demands increases, deep-sea research and ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...

A new study shows that slow, deep rock currents inside the Earth have helped shape the planet's strongest large-scale ...