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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The mystery orb found at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska. (NOAA Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska) In 2023, in water so deep that sunlight never reaches it, scientists operating a remote vehicle ...

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

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

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 ...

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 ...