Scientists are still investigating the potential dangers. Researchers make stunning discovery in deepest ocean trench on ...

However, off the coast of northern Chile, the trench plunges to almost 25,246 ft (8,000 m) below the surface—well within the deepest part of the ocean, known as the Hadal zone.

This section of the Red Sea is one of its deepest with a maximum of 6,000 feet down. However, geological research refutes these accounts as no amount of storm-force winds could help people across ...

But a large project has now added over 6,000 new microbes to the deep-sea species tally. Called the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research Project, or MEER for short, a team of scientists ...

The deepest part of the ocean lies in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, where the ocean floor lies almost 11,000 meters below sea level — a height that is taller than Mount Everest.

The group studied the hadal zone—the deepest part of the ocean—at about 4.66 miles (7.5 kilometers) beneath the surface. Even there, life finds a way. The team’s research was published today ...

As the deepest part of the ocean, it’s about as close to the underworld as you can get in real life – it’s dark, cold, and full of freaky-looking deep-sea beasties with strange adaptations ...

The deepest part of the sea is believed to be the Challenger Deep, a basin located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, which has a depth of 11,000 meters.

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-metre-deep Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea. A total of 167 objects — mainly plastics, glass ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the deep ocean. Things like coral, anemones, and fungi are attached to the ...