Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on ...

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 ...

If you traveled to the deepest points of Earth, what would you find? Lost cities, mythical sea monsters, rivers of gold?

Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

Jimmy Kimmel answers Stephen Colbert's quickfire questions, gets surprisingly deep Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's ...

Three-month expedition will plumb uncharted depths of eastern Pacific in quest for new life forms and insights into quakes ...