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 ...

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died. He was 92. His daughter ...

Earth’s oceans hold some of the least explored places on the planet, shaped over millions of years by tectonic forces that continue to shift the seafloor. Here are seven you should know.

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the ...

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean — to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the ...

While it is well documented that global warming is heating the world's oceans, there is now further evidence that even the ...

Scientists are baffled by a gruesome new species dubbed the 'carnivorous death ball' that lives in the deepest part of the ocean. The new predatory sponge, officially part of the Chondrocladia genus, ...

WASHINGTON – Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown, have been discovered beneath nearly seven miles of water in the deepest part of the ocean. A sample of sediment collected ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...