The Pacific Ocean is home to some of the deepest points on the planet. In fact, four of the top six deepest spots in the world can be found in the Pacific. The Pacific’s basin is uniquely low, which ...

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 ...

If a ship passes over the deepest part of the ocean but there’s nobody there to hear it, does it still make a sound? It sure does. New audio recordings from the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ...

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part ...

Man-made pollutants have been found in a shrimp-like creature, Hirondellea gigas, from the deepest part of the ocean, more than 10,000 metres deep in the Mariana Trench, in the Northwest Pacific Ocean ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on Earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

What do you do when you want to go to the lowest point on the surface of the Earth—a place so deep beneath the ocean it could crush you with its intense pressure? If you’re Swiss scientist Auguste ...

Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters. About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5% of all Earth’s water. Water also exists ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On October 14, 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Jupiter’s fourth largest moon. Its mission is to ...