There’s a reason why the idea of aliens living at the bottom of the sea keeps popping up in popular culture. Many of us are ...

Remotely operated vehicles have changed how we explore and exploit the ocean. They can operate for far longer than human-occupied vehicles, go into areas where risk would dictate people avoid, and ...

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 ...

The world's oceans are big and dark and deep. They cover approximately 70% of the planet’s surface and contain a huge portion of Earth’s biodiversity. If you want to find some of the weirdest ...

Inspired by a deep sea snailfish, researchers create a battery-powered robot that can withstand the extreme pressure at Earth's deepest point. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple ...

The Mariana Trench has long captured the public's imagination. Here are some facts about one of the Earth's great wonders. Q. What is the Mariana Trench? The trench is the deepest place on Earth, ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was ...

A fish has been captured by researchers swimming at never-before-recorded depths of over five miles below the ocean’s surface off the coast of Japan, researchers announced. The unknown species of ...

Down in the deep and dark abyssal depths of earth's oceans, there are still a lot of undiscovered and wild terros. The bizarre but also possibly beautiful nightmare fuel still exists in the depths of ...

Ages ago I worked as a technician for a petroleum well wireline logging outfit. The fragile electronics employed for this work were protected inside heavily built cylindrical steel casings able to ...