Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor ...

Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-26 carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner ...

Scientists recently discovered a strange golden orb at the bottom of the ocean. Now, this intriguing find has sparked a lot ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years ... should be allowed to extract metals like copper or cobalt from the ocean floor. As they deliberate over hundreds of proposed amendments to ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped ... We simply had to guess how deep each canyon was. Years later I learned that the Navy had worked with General Instrument ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.

Tsunamis form from sudden water movements, mainly undersea earthquakes, spreading waves across oceans and increasing as they near shores.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Along the way, the ship's researchers have been trawling the sea floor to bring up a huge variety of unusual organisms from the deep. The scientists also fished out sea spiders "as big as your ...