Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660 ...

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Two earthquakes hit the area between Fiji and New Zealand on April 14 morning. The first quake measured 6.5, and the second ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

For centuries, sailors have described vast oceanic areas emitting an eerie glow, as if bathed in non-existent moonlight.

While the discharge depth is still under discussion ... Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that ... regulations as ...