Beneath the ocean’s surface, hidden from view, lies a global nervous system. Thousands of miles of armored cables carry ...

China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

The U.S. oceanographic research community depends on a complex network of ships and institutions for scientific discovery at sea.

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

“We hope that other research groups will also investigate their deep-ocean samples in the relevant period to eventually come to a definitive answer on the origin of the anomaly,” he tells Physics ...

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Its ability to be deployed on ships of opportunity—volunteer commercial and research vessels—makes this possible. The Hydrobox also opens new opportunities ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 ...