The deep sea remains Earth’s final frontier — a vast, alien realm where sunlight never penetrates and the pressure could crush a human in milliseconds. Yet in this seemingly inhospitable void, some of ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

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 ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can't reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

Bottom dwellers have never been more spectacular. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a tiny, high-tech submersible sunk deeper than ...

When we think of marine life, we usually picture colourful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other critters. The ocean that comes to mind is the one touched by sunlight.