Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a manned ...

Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based ...

While scientists have known that tiny microbes have been prospering in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, a new voyage ...

This map shows the locations of deep-sea dives carried out between 1958 and 2024. Expeditions have focused on a small number of places, mainly around the United States, Japan and New Zealand.

Deep-sea mining is one such currently in the spotlight, partly because of Donald Trump’s declaration earlier this year that his government would begin issuing commercial permits for areas of ...

Scientists have mapped almost every Martian crater but only about 20% of the seabed. Yet interest in the ocean is growing. A trio of new books plunges into the deep.

Their manned descent to the Challenger Deep, about 36,000 feet below the ocean, marked a significant milestone for humanity, per the Department of Defense.

Challenger Deep, the lowest point in the deepest canyon on Earth, lies 35,876 feet below sea level at the southwestern extreme of the Mariana Trench (6.8 miles, or 10.9 kilometers).

For us land-dwellers, being crushed under several miles of ocean water wouldn’t end very well. But for a deep-sea dwelling ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, being brought up to the surface ...

Deep in the ocean, scientists discovered the presence of "dark" oxygen, which is oxygen produced without photosynthesis. Oxygen was previously thought to require light to be produced; the new ...