The deep ocean remains the least-explored environment on the planet, a cold, black world under crushing pressure where ...

Life in the deep ocean evolves under crushing pressure, scarce food, cold water, and darkness that sunlight never reaches.

Director Tasha Van Zandt went to great lengths to make her documentary A Life Illuminated – and to enormous depths. More than ...

Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency from the industry to help mitigate the harms. Noise in the deep ocean can ...

This undated image provided by the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tubeworms in an ocean trench. (Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, ...

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar ...

It’s an exciting find for shark science, as deep-sea species like lanternsharks grow slowly, mature late and produce ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with marine biologist Edie Widder and director Tasha Van Zandt about the new documentary A Life Illuminated.

Sometimes, real life is stranger than fiction, a fact made clear during the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Seascape Alaska 5 expedition in August 2023. While on the deep ocean ...

Basking sharks are not just drifting long-distance travelers relying on stored energy. Satellite tags reveal they likely feed ...

One whale’s unfortunate death can be an entire ecosystem’s blessing, recent research shows. A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale ...

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.