Marine biologists have discovered a new deep-sea species, the bumpy snailfish, off the coast of California at depths ...

Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one ...

Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...

For years, astronomers have been excited about the idea that some planets beyond our solar system might be covered by vast, ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

The first treaty to protect marine diversity in international waters will come into force early next year after being ...

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

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...

Plastic waste is sinking to the Mediterranean seafloor, creating one of the world’s biggest deep-sea pollution hotspots, a ...

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive ...

A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive ...