NOAA Ocean Exploration sent cameras inside the wreck over the Easter holiday weekend and three planes were located in the ...

Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works.

Matt Holden believes taking part in a 21-day expedition exploring the Pacific Ocean this summer is a great opportunity for his students to see him as a role model.

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Our oceans are incredible scientific marvels, and there’s a lot to learn about these amazing bodies of water. You may have ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co. asked the Trump administration today to approve its plans to mine the international ...

This shows the moment the base of the monolith rock came into view of a remotely operated camera on April 22 in the Pacific Ocean. Video screengrab Closer inspection revealed the black crust was shiny ...

Ocean floor restoration isn’t enough. Scientists show how policy and technology can help marine life and habitats recover.

The Trump administration hoped that mining critical minerals could boost U.S. GDP by $300 billion over 10 years and create 100,000 jobs.

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

But there’s another — and possibly far more dangerous — place where he now seeks them: the ocean depths ... machines that drive across the sea floor plucking up nodules and transporting ...