Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Commission on Protected Areas and World Wildlife ...

Support for the controversial practice of harvesting minerals from the ocean floor is growing both in Congress and the ...

French scientists identified an astonishingly sophisticated three-dimensional map in a rock shelter that depicts ...