Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

Scientists recently discovered a strange golden orb at the bottom of the ocean. Now, this intriguing find has sparked a lot ...

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor ...

A firm developing underwater robots to harvest mineral-rich nodules from the ocean floor is seeking approval to investigate ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped, which means we know less about 71 percent of the Earth’s landscape than about the far side of the Moon. That’s a lot of ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing and go check it ...

A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. Justine Calma is a senior science reporter ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

Scientists have discovered the key role the Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays in regulating the global climate ...