[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Scientists will be able to work for up to a month in the facility that will be anchored 2,000 metres below the surface.

It’s hard to believe that anything could live here, but these deep-sea hydrothermal vents are teaming with life, including species yet to be discovered. In December 2016, researchers operating a ...

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm ...

Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s ...

The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus ...

These and other discoveries have left scientists wondering if any off-world amino acids might have once helped life evolve ...

Astrobiologistsplan to use a device to reveal space microbes using human blood to prove that life does indeed exist on Earth by using a special amino acid ...

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...

Deep beneath the mountains of southern Albania, explorers have uncovered what is now confirmed to be the largest underground ...

The Dutch contributing partners of the international MiningImpact3 consortium have been awarded 1.4 million euros. The money ...