In September 1972, a research vessel called the USNS Hayes discovered the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean and named it after ...

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 ...

The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ...

Earth’s oceans hold some of the least explored places on the planet, shaped over millions of years by tectonic forces that ...

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 sunlight can ...

Winter Weather Advisories Overnight for the Thumb Region. NEW YORK – An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme ...