Finding anything at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, is extremely exciting for scientists.

A stretch of the Pacific Ocean spanning 1,700,000 square miles ... As they head toward its center, and survey the depths of its “abyssal zone” (over two miles below the water’s surface ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

Around ninety percent of life forms in the deep sea have yet to be named by humans, British director Eleanor Mortimer informs us in the course of her documentary “How Deep Is Your Love.” It’s a ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more ... extinctions and damage to the ocean food web, to the potential ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ... Risks range from species extinctions and damage to ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can ... Clipperton zone. This is roughly halfway between Mexico and Hawaii and is a vast, flat and deep region of the ocean floor known as an ‘abyssal plain.’ ...