An incredibly rare deep-sea fish with an eerie transparent head was documented on a recent research mission done by the ...

The floating platform with a maximum displacement of about 74,000 tons “has never been done before,” a China expert told ...

Little is known about the long-term effects of deep-sea mining on the organic matter that supports life on the seafloor.

West Pacific describes three species new to science, redescribes two poorly known species and extends the known range of ...

How do deep-sea creatures avoid getting crushed by the water pressure?

Over the past two years, NOAA Ocean Exploration and its partners have mapped approximately 267,500 square kilometers (103,300 ...

The Trump administration is officially moving ahead with a decision to lease ocean tracts off the coast of American Samoa for deep sea mining. The decision, announced Monday, would represent the first ...

Japan has moved its deep-sea rare earth project from theory to physical recovery, bringing  approximately 50 metric tons of mineral-rich mud to the surface during a 2026 test near  Minamitorishima.

When considering which deep-sea creature has the biggest teeth, the answer depends on what you mean by “biggest!” The fangtooth Anoplogaster cornuta has the biggest teeth of any ocean animal compared ...

Every southern spring and summer, sea ice around Antarctica melts with the change of season. The melt injects fresh water ...

A deep-sea exploration team has discovered 57 new species, including one they compare to a Spongebob Squarepants character, ‘Patrick Star’. STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO ...

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