After four years away, the WHOI-operated R/V Atlantis has come home to Woods Hole. Learn where it has been and where it is ...

In the dark waters 600 meters below Monterey Bay, a torpedo-shaped robot called Mesobot drifted silently behind a pulsing ...

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Deep in the South China Sea, scientists from Chinese marine research institutes, including the First Institute of Oceanography, have been exploring a vast underwater sinkhole known as the “Dragon Hole ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava. By Maya Wei-Haas Maya Wei-Haas previously ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...