Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 6.8 miles (35,853 feet/10,928 meters) to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the ...

Scientists are exploring creatures and habitats in the deepest parts of the ocean, and you can follow along by watching a live video stream. Deep in the ocean, a mission is underway to explore the ...

We see a boat on the water and a deep ocean trench below it. The deepest depths of the sea are found in the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. But what is the ...

At nearly seven miles below the water's surface, the Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in Earth's oceans. And the site north of Guam is where... Descending Into The Mariana Trench: James Cameron's ...

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 ...

While discovering new microbial organisms is interesting, finding larger animals is even more thrilling. Over 25,000 feet ...

An American explorer has set a new deep-diving record in the Mariana Trench An American explorer has set a new deep diving record in the Mariana Trench, and in the process uncovered just how far human ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — An American undersea explorer has ...

When Victor Vescovo’s submarine hit the floor of the Marianas Trench, it sent the sediment swirling. “At bottom,” the Texas businessman-turned-extreme-explorer said into his headset. “Repeat: At ...

"The high point of my career is actually the lowest point," Patrick Lahey said. What makes it funny is that Lahey builds submarines for a living. Between April 28 and May 5, Limiting Factor, the ...