While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

Marine biodiversity in deep-sea habitats is a critical area of study, as these ecosystems are home to a vast array of unique organisms and play a significant role in the health of our planet.

Deep beneath the icy waters of the Barents Sea, scientists have made an extraordinary discovery—a long-hidden mud volcano ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

"There is an urgent need to better understand our deep-sea biodiversity." Scientists make wild discovery while exploring deep ...

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...

Scientists have increasingly been sounding the alarm about the potential impacts of the operations on fragile marine habitats, with the likelihood that deep-sea mining could irreversibly destroy ...

The British company Deep, on the other hand, sees it in the sea. To this end, Deep is developing several habitats in which people can live 200 meters below the surface of the sea. In the future ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...