Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...

Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...

Kinorhynchs are small animals ranging from 100 micrometers to one millimeter that are part of the meiofauna, a highly ...

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

The underwater volcano Borealis Mud Volcano is located in the Barents Sea and was first discovered by researchers at UiT The ...

The Jacuzzi of Death, located 3,000ft below the Gulf of Mexico, is a circle around 100-foot wide and has very dense, very toxic waters containing methane and hydrogen sulphide ...

India is planning to launch its first human-carrying underwater vehicle -- also known as a ‘deep-sea manned submersible’, ...

Given the value and scarcity of rare earth elements, after years of inactivity, recent years have seen renewed interest from both the private sector and governments in the commercial ...

The article highlights the key differences between seas and oceans, including their geographical locations, depths, volumes, ...