The US military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore. Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf Coast States, Biodiversity ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

The U.S. legal framework, the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA), although enacted nearly 40 years ago, has ...

They are good general reference imagery for the type of deep ocean observations captured by ROVs. (Image Courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration) About 26 percent of the ocean has been mapped with ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration Previous studies have suggested that potentially millions of plants and animals remain undiscovered simply due to the sheer size and inaccessibility of the oceans.

Mysterious giant monolith standing nearly 50-feet high found on seafloor 1,160 nautical miles northwest from Honolulu, NOAA Ocean Exploration reports.

NOAA Ocean Exploration sent cameras inside the wreck over the Easter holiday weekend and three planes were located in the carrier’s #3 elevator shaft.

Inverted WWII dive bomber found 3 miles deep in Pacific Ocean, with bomb still locked to its wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says. It’s inside the sunken aircraft carrier Yorktown.