Just how deep are the world's deepest oceans? Well, that depends on who you ask, the methods they used, and whatever the ocean was playing at on the day they gathered their data. Despite measuring it ...

Deep in the western Pacific Ocean lies one of the most extreme environments on Earth. The Mariana Trench is not a place ...

New ocean-sensing drones are being built to withstand the deepest depths of the ocean.

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on Earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...

Man-made pollutants have been found in a shrimp-like creature, Hirondellea gigas, from the deepest part of the ocean, more than 10,000 metres deep in the Mariana Trench, in the Northwest Pacific Ocean ...