A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

And no, we’re not talking about sharks. It’s the depths of the ocean, an impenetrably dark and crushing place where, somehow, ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

Search efforts continue for the five-person, 6.5-metre-long submersible that went missing on Sunday while on an expedition to see the wreckage of the Titanic. Here’s a look at how deep the ...

Fifty years ago, two British sailors sat trapped in a deep-sea submersible more than 1,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, facing an uncertain fate while an international team ...

That’s what an international team of scientists did last summer. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers took ...

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, on June 28 ...

A new deep-sea submersible capable of taking three people deeper than the Titanic is undergoing its first “wet test” this month. Initially reported to be taking place in early 2024, the Matsya ...

Deep water expeditions are murky territory. We need to navigate them carefully. Image via Shutterstock. A few weeks ago, when the story of the Titan submersible was dominating the news cycle, I ...

The average depth of our planet’s vast ocean is about 4,000 metres. The deepest point — the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean — is nearly 11,000 metres deep. When it comes to ...

Science · Photos Deep-sea volcano a hotspot for mysterious life Submersible used to explore Cook seamount, a 3,962-metre extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea ...