Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in the ...

A "dinner plate jellyfish" imaged at 1,640 feet deep on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expedition in 2022. Credit: NOAA 2022, you flew by. Join Mashable as we look back at ...

a shark lost a tooth. The tooth fell thousands of feet and settled on the deep ocean floor. Over millennia, minerals in the seawater gradually coated the tooth with layers of metals: cobalt, copper, ...

If you want to see an alien creature then stop searching the cosmos and take a trip to the bottom of the sea. The ocean's depths are full of weird and wonderful creatures, and as humans venture deeper ...

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...