Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.

Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

The world's first seafloor massive sulfide mining project contract has been signed between Nautilus Minerals Inc, a mining company with headquarters in Canada and Tongling Nonferrous metals group ...

Several nominees for positions in the president-elect’s administration have previously voiced support for ocean mining.

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Support for the controversial practice of harvesting minerals from the ocean floor is growing both in Congress and the ...

Eventually, those discussions resulted in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) containing this language: that any industrial activity on the international seafloor must “be ...