A new study could change the way scientists view microbial processes in the deep ocean. The unexpected findings expand our understanding of the impacts of climate change, including how and where the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Most of life’s engines run on sunlight. Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered organisms ...

A shark research organization came face to face last week with a deep sea creature who isn't known for seeing the light of day. Condrik Tenerife, a shark and stingray research and conversation ...

Nearly 4,000 m beneath the Pacific, in water so dark that sunlight has never penetrated, scientists have stumbled on a new ...

A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 meters below sea level where light cannot reach.

The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At the deepest point, the pressure of 36,200 feet of seawater is ...

Imagine diving into the deep blue waters of the open ocean, approximately 500 miles southeast of Hawaii. At first, there would be some sunlight, but this would soon fade as you begin your descent. By ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." When ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. A deep-sea ...