I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

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 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 ...

NEW YORK -- 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 ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static—a massive, still abyss far removed ...

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 ...