These incredible corals form what may be one of the world’s largest reef systems—and researchers have a plan to restore it ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but proof that the abyss is a vast, living engine that rewrites what I think life ...

From the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment led the charge of ...

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

Researchers onboard the deep sea scientific drilling vessel Chikyu sailed to the Japan Trench to drill up to 7,906 metres beneath the seafloor. Credit: JAMSTEC/IODP. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Far below the surface of the Red Sea, in a region long associated with the Biblical story of Moses parting the waters, scientists have stumbled onto a set of “death pools” that look more like science ...

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A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare chiton found nearly three miles beneath the ocean surface sparked a global ...