Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...

A new study finds that humans have visually explored just 0.001 per cent of the deep seafloor - leaving vast areas unknown ...

The great deep sea mining debate has both pros and cons that need to be addressed before the procedure can become viable.

Sonora, CA — 65 students from six local schools recently competed in the 2025 Mother Lode Robotics Challenge at the Sonora ...

Mucky riverbeds. The underside of wind turbines or offshore fish farms. Oil platforms. Reefs and shipwrecks in a harbour.

Deep-sea mining concerns the extraction of minerals from the ocean floor at depths of 200 metres or more. While it has never ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust's (OET) research vessel Nautilus has departed on its first expedition of 2025 to study underwater ...

A new study reveals that less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually recorded, exposing major gaps in ocean ...

Deep sea mining may sound futuristic, but it draws on America’s proven offshore, subsea and innovation strengths. It will create jobs in shipyards, ports, robotics, engineering and processing ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Phil Hartmeyer, is a marine archaeologist at NOAA's Ocean Exploration program, about a mural discovered in the shipwreck of the USS Yorktown, which sunk during WWII.

A group of researchers from China's Beihang University created a tiny robot that's able to descend to Earth's deepest point A tiny deep sea robot took a dive into Earth's deepest trenchScientists ...