When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

NOAA is holding public hearings this week to vet a rule to speed permitting of exploration and mining of mineral-rich nodules in international waters. President Donald Trump’s plan to jump-start ...

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what textbooks say about our planet.

Scientists have discovered giant mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean around 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, a country in west Africa. Made of mud and sand, these massive ...

Early 2026 has brought renewed scrutiny to how Earth-observing satellites register extreme ocean events. Widely circulated reports have pointed to satellite detections of unusually large Pacific Ocean ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

I think many of us have more than a passing interest in extremes and world records. The Guinness Book of Records, cofounded by English twin brothers Ross and Norris McWhirter in 1955, and which is ...