"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The ocean is a scientific, technological, economic and geopolitical frontier. From 2015 to 2030 the global marine economy will grow from $1.5 to $3 trillion, according to the OECD, thanks to ...

Challenger Deep is in the Pacific Ocean inside of the Marina Trench. It's just shy of 11,000 meters, or 6.7 miles, below the ocean surface. In July 2022, Wright and pilot and ocean explorer Victor ...

The new maps of the "deep-sea Grand Canyon" have a "centimeter-scale resolution" and reveal exactly how the underwater valley is constantly changing. The Monterey Canyon begins just off the coast ...

A comprehensive map of the world’s oceans may uncover new species and materials, and find old shipwrecks, says Jyotika Virmani, XPrize’s Ocean Discovery director. “The deep sea is the world ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

Anyone with an interest in deep-ocean exploration or seagoing adventure will likely find something to admire in this week’s first reports from the Nekton Mission’s work off Bermuda.. Using a ...

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ocean, where scientists have discovered what they now characterize as the largest deep sea coral habitat to be mapped and documented.

“We have maps of Mars that have 100 to 10,000 times more resolution than maps of the deep ocean,” he said. To create the new map, ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

Fuel alone can total up to $40,000 per day, Feldman said.There is, however, currently an effort underway to create a definitive map of the ocean floor, called Seabed 2030.Still, there are huge ...