In September 1972, a research vessel called the USNS Hayes discovered the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean and named it after ...

Earth’s oceans hold some of the least explored places on the planet, shaped over millions of years by tectonic forces that ...

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 ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

Warmer Atlantic water from near Greenland is heating up the depths of the Arctic Ocean, which was previously thought of as one of the few places not significantly affected by climate change. The sea ...