An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme ...

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

That’s what an international team of scientists did last summer. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers took ...

In the summer of 2024, an expedition ventured to the depths of the ocean, navigating through waters 31,000 feet deep (for ...

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to ...

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 ...

The researchers wondered if the deep-ocean's polymetallic nodules generated enough electricity to produce oxygen. This chemical reaction is part of a process called seawater electrolysis, which ...

They’d set out to document how much oxygen deep-sea organisms use up at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, in an area between Hawaii and Mexico that companies are eyeing for mining.

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.