Far below the reach of sunlight, scientists have stumbled on a patch of vivid blue mud on the Pacific seafloor that appears ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

Roughly 2 million species live in the world’s ocean. But scientists have only described a mere 10% of them. With extinctions on the rise and biodiversity threatened worldwide, many species are in ...

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Discover simple actions you can take to help protect the ocean from overfishing, climate change, and plastic pollution.

Sonar mapping of the Challenger Deep by the DSSV Pressure Drop employing a Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multibeam echosounder system (26 April – 4 May 2019) The highest known pressure in the deep oceans ...

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

Saturn's moon Titan was once suggested to possibly contain hidden life inside its huge subsurface ocean, but these hopes may have been scuppered by a new discovery. Titan is likely uninhabitable from ...

At the age of 64, Sharon Lane retired from her job as a high school language teacher. After spending nearly all her life in Los Angeles, she decided that it was time for a change. While many retirees ...

This Friday Apple TV+ will debut the documentary “The Last of the Sea Women.” Get ready to meet a band of feisty grandmother warriors often called real life mermaids. On South Korea’s Jeju Island a ...

This artist's concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampart-like features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Saturn’s ...