Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even more about their ...

Researchers can better understand how life might adapt to situations beyond Earth by examining the ocean floor, which expands the field of astrobiology. An important turning point in the intertwined ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

Andy Haverly aims to save Earth by using a 1960s project to extract geological materials from the ocean floor.

A new area equivalent in size to Sweden has been mapped in the Arctic Ocean, contributing to the project's aim to map global ...

The OceanGate Titan tragedy, where five people aboard a submersible died when it imploded on its way down to the Titanic ...

Sealab basically looked like kind of a cigar-shaped vessel, like a submarine with legs like a dinner table on it so it can be propped up on the ocean floor. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

In the 1960s, the Navy built a series of underwater habitats and trained a group of men to live in them. When our story left off, the Navy had successfully operated a Sealab 205 feet below sea level.