Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

Scientists uncovered a "Lost City" deep underwater in the Atlantic Ocean that could prove the existence of extraterrestrial ...

Himalayan salts have intrigued people for centuries, and today, these naturally beautiful crystals continue to be celebrated ...

Lithium executives said the ruling gave renewed momentum to the emerging industry, which many hope will bring new jobs to one ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The next frontier in energy: the deep ocean, where there are enormous deposits of the minerals needed for clean energy technologies.

First Solar agreed to refrain from using minerals mined from the deep sea, an early win for shareholder environmental ...

First Solar agreed to refrain from using minerals mined from the deep sea, an early win for shareholder environmental activists ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Portugal’s parliament has approved the drafting of a moratorium on deep sea mining in territorial waters to 2050.