A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the ...

Scientists have filmed a live colossal squid for the first time. This happened in March 2025 during an expedition in the ...

Through a unique collaboration between the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), Pensoft Publishers, and science ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

Clare Fieseler's and Jason Jaacks' reporting was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing something totally new to science. The vessel’s lights illuminated a thriving ...

This Deep-Sea discovery is so new it’s rewriting the map of life on Earth and it could reshape our understanding of the climate system. More than 9,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...