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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery challenges "long-standing assumptions about life's potential at extreme depths," study authors said.