An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive ... where 'dead zones' can reach the size of New Jersey. Photo Credit: ...

Imagine a world where sunlight barely penetrates, where darkness reigns and strange, glowing creatures drift silently through ...

Preserving the bioluminescent highways is about more than saving strange creatures—it’s about protecting the intricate web that connects all life on Earth. The ocean twilight zone remains one ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

A group of scientists ventured into an adventure and performed one of the first deep-sea mining activities on the Pacific ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...