It’s easy to forget that beneath the sunlit waves, just past where the ocean’s blue turns to jet-black, lies a world teeming ...

Imagine plunging into a world where sunlight barely penetrates, and the darkness is suddenly broken by mysterious flashes of ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

My team will be able to study the deep seafloor into the hadal zone, an area ... This habitat, full of deep ocean trenches, is still poorly understood. The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has ...

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon predict when the odd ocean glows occur.

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a phenomenon they're calling "dark oxygen" — oxygen produced without any sunlight — 4,000 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean in the ...

My team will be able to study the deep seafloor into the hadal zone, an area ... This habitat, full of deep ocean trenches, is still poorly understood. The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has ...

Dark oxygen ... of the ocean bottom itself suggests one possible source: polymetallic nodules. These potato-sized lumps, composed of various metals, litter the seafloor where the researchers detected ...