Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals ... until now really been entirely untapped is at the bottom of the ocean. As you detailed in your stories for ...

President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, much of the deep-sea ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the Barents Sea. As he peered at a sonar screen, he saw something strange—a ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ...

To the surprise of all, scientists have found bits of space buried beneath the waves. At the bottom of the ocean, evidence of what researchers are calling a “supernova graveyard” has been ...

Atlantis isn’t the only forgotten civilization buried many leagues under the sea. The remains of at least a dozen lost cities rest eerily at the bottom of ... that an object found by Swedish ...

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

which controls the supply of many critical minerals. To retrieve the nodules, mining firms plan to send uncrewed collector vehicles down to the bottom of the ocean. The Metals Company vehicle ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer ...