Deep below the Pacific Ocean lies the Mariana Trench, which is home to the Earth's deepest known point of the seabed, plunging to 10,935 metres below sea level.

Soviet scientists embarked on an ambitious quest to dig into the Earth's crust, creating the world-renowned Kola Superdeep ...

An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...

This zone includes the deepest part of the ocean. It’s marked by total darkness and crushing pressures – a place where you would not expect to find life. Yet astonishingly, the hadal zone is home to a ...

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 ...

American explorer, Victor Vescovo broke the record for the deepest dive while descending nearly 11 kilometers into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. His legendary feat was marked, not by the ...

Scientists have found extraordinary levels of the toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and polybrominated diphenyls (PBDE) in ocean fauna in two of the world's deepest ocean trenches (>10,000 metres) ...

A 2023 astronaut photo captured a rare effect, known as sunglint, transforming the surface of one of Russia's deepest lakes ...

In the world's deepest undersea chasm, more than 6.7 miles from the Pacific Ocean's surface, Dawn Wright embarked on a mission in a never-before-seen area of the Challenger Deep. But she soon ...

A never-before-seen predatory crustacean that feeds on other smaller creatures in the hadal zone was discovered in the Atacama Trench at a depth of 25,900 feet.