A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

It’s a nightmare scenario: megalodons, prehistoric sharks nearly as large as blue whales, survive in the deepest part of the ...

Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 11,000 meters depth. This was no accident. The discovery ...

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 ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated that its ...

The deepest part of any of the world’s oceans, known as Challenger Deep, is a portion of the Mariana Trench that goes down to a max depth of 36,070 feet (10,994 meters). Pretty remarkable! Ocean ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...