Scientists found something seriously strange in the deep sea, and it lives in a world that feels basically impossible. This ...

The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...

China has applied a dual-use approach by deploying civilian research ships that provide critical maritime data to its ...

A hidden “barrier” in the Atlantic might be splitting the ocean in two, and the proof comes from deep-sea jellyfish that look ...

Scattered across coral-strewn reefs and sunken cliffs, Bermuda’s centuries-old shipwrecks beckon explorers to uncover ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, ...

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 ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for mining seafloors at extreme depths, funding scientific studies to evaluate the ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...

Film and television science fiction and fantasy today tends to exist in ‘universes’–the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), DC Universe (DCU) and the Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU)–where different ...

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