The latest dive reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves - a new record An American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive. Victor ...

Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in the ...

Underwater surveys picked up mysterious “bio-twang” sounds from the Mariana Trench in 2014. A new study reveals where the sci-fi-esque noises are coming from. The Mariana Trench lies in the Pacific ...

Thousands of never-before-seen microbe species have been found in the deepest point of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench. These strange microorganisms are like nothing we see on the surface, ...

Imagine a place where the water is so deep that even Mount Everest, the tallest of mountains, could be swallowed whole, with its peak still submerged underwater. It might sound impossible, but there ...

Misha Glenny and guests discuss what explorations are revealing of the life and geology at the bottom of the deepest oceanic trench in the world, much deeper than Everest is high. Show more Misha ...

Three months ago, entrepreneur and UNC-Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen was gazing down at Earth from a rocketship in the blackness of outer space. Next week, he’ll be exploring the darkness of the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...