It’s a good day to be a marine biologist: a bundle of new species has been found living among the deep-sea methane seeps off ...

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

The search for life beyond Earth is accelerating, with new telescopes, spacecraft, and missions exploring the universe for ...

Katrina Twing, a professor of microbiology at Weber State University, was invited to speak at a conference of Japan ...

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

The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the ...

Crewed submersible has been key to Chinese ambitions to lead oceanic research and exploration in areas like deep-sea mining ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps ...

The Borealis Mud Volcano, a 7,000-year-old deep-sea formation in the Arctic Ocean, supports marine life and aids climate ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a vast underground biosphere filled with microbial life thriving miles beneath the Earth's surface—a discovery that defies expectations and redefines our understanding of ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according ...