Today we have advanced submersibles and ocean mapping technologies, yet the ocean remains a dark, mysterious place. For explorers in the 20th century, exploration of the deep sea was limited to ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows. A study published in the journal Nature found that the site of a ...

We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 percent of that ocean is unknown to us. Like ...