Far below the reach of sunlight, in water cold enough to freeze most life in its tracks, scientists have found oxygen being ...

Researchers have unveiled two world-first deep-ocean landers designed to probe the origins of dark ...

A deep sea robot is exploring remote underwater canyons. And the biodiverse sights are astonishing. On a 55-day expedition off the Chilean coast, scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's ...

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

It dwells in the midnight zone. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute identified an intriguing new deep sea species off of California. It's see-through, can glow, and nabs prey ...

The existence of a previously unknown source of oxygen would call into question long-held assumptions about the origins of life on Earth.

Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...

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 ...

A giant group of crabs filmed 1,350 feet below the surface in San Antonio Canyon. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute / YouTube A deep sea robot is exploring remote underwater canyons. And the biodiverse ...

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious discovery that metallic rocks at the bottom of the ocean are producing "dark ...