When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes ...

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with life.

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized prize for mining companies in search of materials needed for humanity's ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. According to a new paper published April 25 in the journal National Science Review, ...

Setting anchor at the deepest point of Androscoggin Lake, Buddy Cummings looks off the side of the boat. He starts to choke up, witnessing what's happened to the place he's spent summers for most of ...

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