China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

The moment you descend into Ohio Caverns, the outside world fades away. The temperature settles at a consistent 54 degrees – a natural climate control system that’s been working flawlessly since ...

That’s the sensation awaiting at Ohio Caverns in West Liberty – an underground realm where reality bends and nature shows off its most fantastical side. The first time you descend into these limestone ...

The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

California State Parks, which manages more than 340 miles of California’s coastline, is asking the public not to collect any ...

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

The move is designed to help private companies access billions of tons of potato-sized rocks known ... The practice of deep-sea mining involves using machinery to remove minerals and metals ...