A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from Star Wars has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert ...

In the deep sea near the Mariana Trench and Hawaii, a new Star Wars-like species was discovered. Polina Silivanova via Unsplash Not all new species discoveries are met with pomp and circumstance.

If you ask most people, they would tell you the bottom of the ocean is a dark and depressing place they wouldn't want to visit. It's often used as a metaphor for those kinds of feelings. But the truth ...

Can you name a single geologic feature of the deep sea? Take a moment. Think about it. Did you pick the Mariana Trench? Odds are pretty good that you did. It is the deepest point on our planet and one ...

Researchers say they have spotted the deepest living fish ever found — a sea ghost of a snailfish that floated past their video camera at a depth of 26,716 feet (8,143 meters) in the Western Pacific ...

On Nov. 12, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a request for information (RFI), indicating its interest in “leasing” marine minerals located on the CNMI’s outer continental shelf, a ...