Most people underestimate just how deep the ocean really is. Beyond the surface, there are layers of darkness that humans have barely explored. As you go deeper, the pressure increases and the ...

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

What if the answer to the world’s growing water crisis was hidden in the depths of the ocean? For decades, the idea of turning seawater into drinkable freshwater has been plagued by high costs, ...

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 ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways ...

Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...

Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral reef system off the coast of Argentina that may be one of the largest on ...