The Pacific Ocean is home to some of the deepest points on the planet. In fact, four of the top six deepest spots in the world can be found in the Pacific. The Pacific's basin is uniquely low, which ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A manned submersible dove over 31,000 feet below sea level to explore the ocean’s deepest region—the hadal zone. The research team discovered entire ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

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 ...

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 ...