Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape ...

The discovery of worms and snails confirms that these still-mysterious, dark hotspots of life extend beyond what’s visible ...

Giant worms found wriggling under the Pacific seabed have unveiled a thriving ecosystem in a fiercely hostile environment, ...

Scientists discovered life forms beneath hydrothermal vents, revealing complex deep-sea ecosystems hidden below the surface.

Scientists have discovered a hidden ecosystem beneath hydrothermal vents on the seafloor, revealing life in volcanic caves.

This week, marvel at giant tube worms living beneath hot springs on the ocean floor, watch SpaceX catch a rocket booster, ...

At 2,515 meters (8,250 feet) below the ocean surface, the hydrothermal vent field of the East Pacific Rise is at depths ...

The world's largest icebergs break off the Antarctic ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a ...

We actually found that these animals are here quite a bit more often than we had realized,” says Will Oestreich, a researcher ...

In late 2016, scientists spotted a rapidly growing fissure extending across the enormous Larsen C Ice Shelf that spills into ...

A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor presents a landscape as foreign as that of distant planets. Deep-sea volcanic ridges, formed by tectonic plate collisions, give rise to ...

Kilometres below the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch out ... Now, however, new work is revealing evidence that these animals are raising their young in just such a place: the fractured ...