A deep sea exploration and monitoring station a mile deep in the contested South China Sea could also cement China as a ...

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

China plans a 6,000-foot-deep research base, blending deep-sea science with potential military and resource ambitions. The South China Sea holds vast methane hydrate reserves, and China’s new ...

China has begun construction of a deep-sea research platform in Guangzhou, marking a major step in the country's efforts to explore extreme marine environments and develop sustainable ocean resources.

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

Valuable minerals have recently been found in Japan’s deep sea. Robust environmental monitoring must accompany an increase in exploration, say Japanese researchers. The International Seabed ...

The AUKUS navy teams trialed an underwater autonomous drone recently to estimate its capabilities in the deep sea. The tests were ... near the world’s largest naval base in Norfolk in the ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...