The Pacific Ocean is not only the largest but also the deepest ocean in the world. Additionally, it is the oldest ocean, with a basin that dates back over 200 million years.

In the ocean’s deepest abyss, a world of bizarre and dangerous creatures thrives where sunlight never reaches. The Mariana Trench, a vast expanse stretching 2,500 kilometers with depths plunging over ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

The U.S. wants to mine the deep sea. But economists warn that leaders aren't taking the full value of the oceans into account ...

The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean in the world, plunging to depths of around 11,000 metres in the Mariana Trench. Covering more than 63 million square miles, it is also the largest and most ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

To find the bow of this ship is an opportunity to remember the sacrifice of this valiant crew, even on one of the worst nights in U.S. Navy history.” ...

In the South China Sea, off China’s Hainan Island, researchers dropped the carcass of a cow about 5,340 feet down to the seafloor and trained cameras on the bovine bait, according to the study. To ...

These included calls to “acknowledge the deep ocean’s critical role, and the scale of what we still do not know” and to “pause potentially risky interventions” until those uncertainties are reduced.