Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely resting on the floor of one of the least-mapped sections of the ocean, according to ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...

The carcass, reduced to a bony skeleton, measured about 6.5 feet and was surrounded by crawling creatures that fed on its ...

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its ...

A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean's surface from the depths known as the hadal zone.

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Analyses of sediment cores from the Pacific Ocean's Japan Trench ... when sediment and other materials are deposited on the sea floor from trench margins above. The authors demonstrate how ...

Earthquakes have been detected in the Pacific Ocean using cable-based ocean monitoring techniques employed by scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and New Zealand’s Measurement ...