China has developed the world's first system to reach the deepest point in the ocean to lay cables needed for underwater exploration. Dalian Maritime University, Nantong Liwei Machinery Company and ...

Deep enough to stack more than a dozen Burj Khalifas, one on top of the other.

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

Thousands of never-before-seen microbe species have been found in the deepest point of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench. These strange microorganisms are like nothing we see on the surface, ...

The bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112-metre deep depression in the Ionian Sea, contains one of the highest concentrations of marine debris in the deep ocean: it is yet another testimony to the ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our target was an east-to-west transect starting near Guam, over the Challenger ...

A groundbreaking study has found one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever detected at the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea. Researchers discovered plastic, glass, metal and ...

The bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112-metre deep depression in the Ionian Sea, contains one of the highest concentrations of marine debris in the deep ocean: it is yet another testimony to the ...