The Mariana Trench, the lowest point in the ocean on our planet, has also been problematic for scientists and engineers. More than 10,000 meters deep, the record pressure and sub-freezing temperatures ...

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 that its ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, a deep-sea robot descended to 1,300 m and sent back images of something that, on paper, should not be there at all. In a stretch of the Pacific that scientists thought ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...