New study shows just how little – about 99.999% – of the world’s oceanic depths have been viewed by human eyes.

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That’s been his dream since 2001, when Barron’s then-tennis partner asked him to invest in ...

Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a ...

Roughly 25 percent (23.4 percent to be exact) of the Earth’s sea floor has been mapped, thanks to an international initiative known as Seabed 2030. Relying largely on voluntary contributions of ...

Transparent paper-based material can hold boiling water and degrade in deep ocean in under a year by Bob Yirka, Phys.org Editors' notes ...

In a 2016 blog post, Google developers pointed out one data quirk that can lead to strange hill-and-valley artifacts: The background map of the ocean floor is based on a map made by the Scripps ...

New research suggests that polymetallic nodules on the deep-sea floor may produce oxygen, a conclusion that could have enormous consequences for mining companies. Above, Gerard Barron, chairman ...

Ice tracks from the past What looks like a road roundabout is a scar gouged into the ocean floor by the bottom of an iceberg halting, then spinning and veering off in a new direction, probably ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy was exploring the other "final frontier" -- the sea. A series of underwater habitats called "Sealabs" were constructed for scientific exploration on the ocean floor.