California-based company Impossible Metals asked the Trump administration earlier this month to auction off mining leases for ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading ...

A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV SuBastian — a robot fitted with a slew of scientific instruments and capable of descending ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet ... mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can ...

In March 2025, researchers in China posted a preprint of a study (which has not yet been peer-reviewed) in which they report that two strains of deep-sea bacteria can reduce nitrate to ammonia, a ...

A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 ... complicates negotiations around deep-sea mining regulations as it showcases ...

A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team ... glassy appearance and become an opaque dark red or purple. When full grown, they are ...