When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Mariana Trench is the deepest known point of the ocean, plunging down further than the height ...

The world's oceans are big and dark and deep. They cover approximately 70% of the planet’s surface and contain a huge portion of Earth’s biodiversity. If you want to find some of the weirdest ...

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 ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was ...

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died. He was 92. His daughter ...

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ...

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the ...