Scientists have found microplastics speckling the waters of the Mariana Trench, known for being the deepest of any ocean trench, and at every level of the sea. The researchers published their findings ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living marine species formally named and described. A significant challenge is the ...

The secret to life on Earth could be deeper than we thought. Scientists have discovered that metal nodules on the ocean floor are producing oxygen in total darkness without any aid from living ...

With 2025's hurricane season just around the corner, meteorologists tracking the Atlantic Ocean are seeing an unexpected development. According to reporting by USA Today, a patch of the eastern ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues have been studying the ocean floor and its ecosystems, ...

Strange organisms that get their energy from chemical reactions instead of the sun have been discovered at the bottom of ocean trenches up to 31,000 feet deep in the northwest Pacific between Russia ...

The caption read “same length as my friend’s Suburban.” I laughed out loud, because what else do you do when the ocean casually decides to one-up Detroit? That fish wasn’t just big. It was the biggest ...

Research collaboration: Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium (ANZIC) is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating ...