Crewed submersible has been key to Chinese ambitions to lead oceanic research and exploration in areas like deep-sea mining ...

While on a shark research expedition off the coast of Tenerife, marine biologists said they captured the first images of an adult black seadevil anglerfish alive near the ocean’s surface.

is part of the Kremlin’s Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research, an elite unit of the Russian military specialized in deep-sea work. The ship is also equipped with a variety of sensors. Russia ...

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater observatory to detect neutrinos, tiny particles from space.

Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...

BEIJING -- China's manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong and research vessel Dayang Yihao (Ocean No 1) are set to complete ...

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Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

One of China’s most advanced deep-sea research vessels – the submersible Jiaolong – has been given major upgrades and is set for sea trials in March, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.

China's manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong and research vessel Dayang Yihao (Ocean No.1) are set to complete major upgrades in preparation for deep-sea exploration missions this year ...