Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

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

Turkish scientists are set to explore the depths of oceans and seas for clues about life in space through the Middle Eastern ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

A discovery has been made deep beneath the ocean, where scientists have uncovered an unusual form of oxygen, referred to as ...

Project aims to search for signs of life in deep space by studying underwater hydrothermal vents, which resemble potential ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...