This is the deep sea—a realm of mystery and wonder, but also a place now facing the looming shadow of human ambition. With ...

Scientists find strange sea pigs, giant sea spiders, and a butterfly-like animal beneath the Antarctic Ocean’s icy surface.

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ...

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for centuries.

Satellite data, in other words, only gives a rough idea of what lies beneath the sea. Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped, which means we know less about 71 percent ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...