Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment in ocean waters south of Martha’s ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

In the second part of this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Christopher Reddy of Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

The cause of the holes has not been determined. The holes in the sand are wide and deep and visitors were told to avoid the beach area, which had been closed since Dec. 14 as a safety precaution.

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...