Scientists warn deep-sea mining recovery depends on habitat, and some losses in vents and seamounts may be irreversible.

When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to vacuum up valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

The supergiant bathynomid is a deep-sea isopod famous for surviving more than five years without food. Despite residing in an ...

Strange living communities found in rocks at the deepest parts of the ocean have astonished scientists around the world.

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ...

When we think of marine life, we usually picture colorful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being used to create new commercial products ranging from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. Genes are segments of DNA that provide instructions for making ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...