Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...

“The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the authors of a new study. We tend to think of the deep ocean as cold, dark, and ...

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean's surface from the depths known as the hadal zone. Yet for as much as we know what lurks in its cold darkness, it might as well be ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed surprising diversity. And also trash. Reading time 3 minutes Earth’s hadal zone ...

The Japan Trench is located on the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a region of special interest in earthquake and deep-water research. “It is here that oceanic plates bend, form ultra-deep-water trenches and ...