A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

New deep-sea limpet species, Pectinodonta nautilus, found on a sunken log near Johnston Atoll, nearly 8,000 feet deep.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the deepest creature ever recorded, found at an astounding depth of ...

The discovery reveals how fragments of continental crust are stripped from beneath tectonic plates and pushed under the ocean ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.

A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...