Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Earth's oceanic trenches are still shrouded in mystery, and for good reason. Plunging as deep as 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) beneath the surface, their dark, frigid waters are under mind-boggling ...

When her three-person submersible descended more than 30,000 feet into one of the Pacific Ocean’s deepest trenches, Mengran Du wasn’t sure what they would find. What she saw, she recalled, was ...

The bottom of the Japan Trench has some of the harshest conditions for life on Earth. But despite this, it is crawling with deep-sea creatures that dig intricate burrows and deep, corkscrew-like ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said the Philippine Trench generated the magnitude 6.0 earthquake in General Luna, Surigao del Norte on Friday morning. According to ...