At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the surface off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun never penetrates, ...

Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in the past week.

Regardless of climb-ability, the 3,109-meter seamount is a massive find. It’s one of many made during the oceanographers’ ...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year awards announced the winners of its 2024 contest featuring stunning images of underwater ...

A semi truck driver drove his truck off the side of the Seward Highway and ended up in the freezing waters of the northern ...

Enlarge / Following the 2022 Hunga volcano eruption, a nearby hydrothermal vent was seen coated with a white mat of bacteria and surrounded by a thick layer of ash. The vent usually supports animal ...

Between them is a stainless-steel chamber that holds each strand of a fiber optic cable — up to 48 of them, each thinner than ...

A team of NASA scientists is developing autonomous robots able to go where humans cannot, beneath Antarctica’s huge ice ...

Weirs are an essential tool for getting accurate counts of the state’s critical salmon runs. They can also create prime ...

To target the tiny prey they depend on, humpbacks have developed a way of trapping them with nets made out of bubbles. A new ...

Researchers have also discovered 150 previously unknown species along the mountain ridge to the Salas y Gómez Ridge to Rapa ...

DNR is testing a new tool to restore critical eelgrass meadows in the Puget Sound: a robot nicknamed "Grasshopper." ...