While rich mineral deposits promise centuries of supply, critics argue Japan’s deep-ocean venture risks an irreversible ‘race to the bottom’.

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

The Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service will award a firm-fixed-price contract to the Gulf of America Alliance, also known as GOAA, for access to and support of the Deep Water ...

The province says the company has not demonstrated the environmental stewardship necessary to be entrusted with the use of ...

In the South China Sea, off China’s Hainan Island, researchers dropped the carcass of a cow about 5,340 feet down to the ...

Rare footage reveals an elusive deep-sea predator showcasing surprising social behaviors.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has flown through the plumes of water vapor spewing out from the ocean inside Saturn's moon ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

The bow, which fell to a depth of 2,214 feet, had been unaccounted for since Nov. 30, 1942, when a Japanese torpedo detonated the ship’s forward magazines during the Battle of Tassafaronga, the ...

Long before Jaws had swimmers sprinting from knee-deep water, the idea of the killer shark was already circling the public ...

When One-Punch Man hit the scene a few years ago, it completely flipped the superhero genre with a simple but genius premise: ...