Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

From deep-diving whales to jellyfish with long trailing tentacles, these deep-sea creatures highlight how much we still have to learn about life in the ocean’s depths.

The seabed is a highly diverse and dynamic environment that ranges from the desert-like deep-sea floor to the rich oases at cold seeps, hydrothermal vents and large food falls. As well as the ...

Even if local fishers receive deep-sea boats, the huge industrial ships coming into the new port loaded with fish will disrupt the local market and deny them a livelihood, he said.

Researchers in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift reported a deep, rhythmic mantle “pulse” that is slowly tearing Africa apart to form a new ocean basin.

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent apart.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Scientists say the three species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy while helping prevent methane from escaping the deep sea.