Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

This continental slope plunges into depths sunlight cannot reach, through the aphotic zone all ... 51% of Earth's surface area. As the continental shelf gives way to the ocean depths, trenches ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Sea surface temperatures are vital measurements that indicate the warmth of the ocean's top layer, influencing weather patterns, climate, and marine ecosystems.

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

By Spoorthy Raman Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding ...

"We postulate that the reservoir is not necessarily a subsurface ocean, but could instead be a mushy zone within the ice shell,” they wrote in their paper. "A connection from the surface to a ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.