Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

However, with the rise of modern technology in the last century, our species is eyeing other forms of habitation beyond ground-floor ... the ocean—the company hopes to have its first underwater ...

It is about time someone gave ocean science more attention ... torpedo-like robot probes that can take underwater video, map the sea floor and collect water samples on days-long journeys ...

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea mining has never been done — though some companies have pushed for it ...

Sea pigs live on the sea floor, between 3,300 to 19,500 feet (1 to 6 km) below the ocean's surface, and feed on the organic material that falls from the upper ocean layers, sometimes called ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory We’ve mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA’s SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a groundbreaking satellite called SWOT to map the ...