A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

As deep-sea robots continue to evolve, they hold the potential to discover new life forms—true deep-sea "aliens"—and unlock ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on ...

There’s no immediate threat to the Marianas from a North Korea launch on Monday, the Guam Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense said in a statement. Citing a statement from the South ...

Russia and China are harassing the West with attacks that, although not crossing the line into war, inflict considerable ...

Explore six of Earth’s most mysterious and largely untouched regions, from the dense Amazon's Vale do Javari and Bhutan's ...

A SHAPESHIFTING robot submarine has reached Earth’s deepest point – 36,000ft underwater – in search of deep-sea “aliens”. The ...

It appears to be an alien planet. What is the ocean's deepest point? What lives in the Mariana Trench—and what has been discovered recently?

’Fi were king of the forest, and I had a friend who was a know-nothing dilettante, a dude with a couple billion dollars’ ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated ...

The deep sea is littered with all the junk we carelessly toss away, from plastic bags to old washing machines to incredibly creepy figurines. Not even the greatest depths of the ocean are spared ...