How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that ...

Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 11,000 meters depth. This was no accident. The discovery ...

Megalodon, the giant prehistoric shark that once ruled warm oceans, is having a very modern afterlife. Despite a clear ...

Submarines have been diving deeper and deeper into the ocean's depths, with undersea explorers looking to dive deeper than ...

It’s a nightmare scenario: megalodons, prehistoric sharks nearly as large as blue whales, survive in the deepest part of the ...

Scientists have explored deep into the ocean to find a new species of crustacean in the Atacama Trench. that shows how ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

MANILA, Philippines — It was no ordinary March morning in 2021 for Dr. Deo Florence Onda as he began to explore another world from inside a titanium submersible, free-falling toward the deepest part ...

The Trump administration argues that opening America’s seafloor to deep-sea mining is essential for strengthening our economy and securing our energy future.

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.