A sample of ocean crust, turned upside down, reveals tubeworms and other organisms. Mónika Naranjo-Shepherd / Schmidt Ocean Institute CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 In summer 2023, researchers deployed a ...

Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may never visit. By Kate Golembiewski Around much of the planet, an ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...