At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun ...

Part of the tectonic "Ring of Fire" encircling the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench is a subduction fault where the older crustal rock of ... other surface ships and deep-sea exploratory vehicles ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be ... about 2.7 billion years ago. "Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Researchers examining seismic data recorded on Mars say the have found evidence supporting the presence of liquid water deep ...

A new study involving the University of Liverpool has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological ...

Researchers said that potato-sized nodules could be producing enough electrical current to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as electrolysis.