Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in the ...
The ocean covers most of our planet, yet so much of it is still a mystery. Beneath the surface is a massive, dark world where the depths are crushing, the creatures are enormous, and the unknown feels ...
A "dinner plate jellyfish" imaged at 1,640 feet deep on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expedition in 2022. Credit: NOAA 2022, you flew by. Join Mashable as we look back at ...
a shark lost a tooth. The tooth fell thousands of feet and settled on the deep ocean floor. Over millennia, minerals in the seawater gradually coated the tooth with layers of metals: cobalt, copper, ...
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...
The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) did not abruptly end its deep-sea research activities in 1978, contrary to posts shared online suggesting the space agency found something ...
The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...