Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our planet today.

MARIANA TRENCH (CBSMiami) -- While silence fills the depths of outer space, researchers are finding out that our planet's oceans can be quite deafening. Scientists with the National Oceanic and ...

The life-supporting medium results from chemical reactions between the seawater and magma rising from beneath the ocean floor. 5. The Mariana Trench was designated as a US national monument in 2009 ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

March 26, 2012 — -- In 1997 James Cameron famously sent the RMS Titanic to the ocean floor. ... dove together to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, ...

So deep that the Mariana Trench, hidden beneath the ocean’s waves, would surpass Mount Everest in height, if our planet's tallest mountain were placed inside it upside down. Remarkably, a host of ...

The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coasts of Japan and the Philippines — at a depth of around 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) below sea level — is famous for being the ...

Oceanic trenches typically extend 3 to 4 km (1.9 to 2.5 mi) below the level of the surrounding oceanic floor. The deepest ocean depth to be sounded is in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench ...

The BBC’s Climate and Science correspondent Georgina Rannard explains why we know so little about what’s going on in the deepest parts of the ocean and some of the discoveries that have been made ...

The Mariana Trench is one of the ocean's biggest enigmas, housing untold marine life and geological features within its nearly 7-mile depths. A new ocean expedition aims to unfold some of those ...