While scientists have known that tiny microbes have been prospering in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, a new voyage ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a manned ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

Researchers have discovered a highly specialized community of sea creatures living 6 miles beneath the ocean surface—deeper ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the ...

In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can make it hard to survive. Scientists ...

And no, we’re not talking about sharks. It’s the depths of the ocean, an impenetrably dark and crushing place where, somehow, ...

A recent deep-sea discovery has captured the attention of scientists and marine life enthusiasts, as a telescope fish has been observed in abyssal zones, in total darkness. These t ...

The discovery in Earth's deepest underwater valley suggests that there could be much more life thriving in the hostile conditions at the bottom of our planet's largely unexplored oceans than ...

On this week's episode of the Best of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: digging through dino poop, lead made Romans dumber, elephants use tools, and happy rats ...