The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Giant deep-sea spider spotted crawling on ocean floor near Antarctica - Researchers suspect species grows so large partly due ...

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

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.

"Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic ... in the search for extraterrestrial organisms. This unique ecosystem is one of the ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight, through metallic ...

Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals ... discovery last year that oxygen was being released on ...

“The organisms may be getting ready earlier than ... darker waters of the deep sea. If she’s right, the zone of productive ocean may be deeper than anyone thought. “If polar phytoplankton ...