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

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Yet the small number of vehicles capable of reaching abyssal and hadal depths—and the even smaller subset that can safely carry humans—limits the ability to explore them. A key tool for this ...

The hadal zone features extreme pressure ... This last study also estimates when certain marine creatures first descended to such depths. For example, the researchers propose that eels colonized ...

The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would ...

In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 meters—organisms endure immense pressures exceeding 1 ton per square centimeter, near-freezing ...

In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 meters—organisms endure immense pressures exceeding one ton per square centimeter, near-freezing ...

On March 6, the scientific journal Cell, featured a cover story, systematically revealing the ecological characteristics of the hadal zone at water depths exceeding 6,000 meters. These findings ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?

At greater depths, cooperation between microbes seemed ... This suggests that microbes in the hadal zone don’t just drift randomly but instead find specific niches where they thrive.

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed surprising diversity. And also trash. Best of CES 2025 Awards We may ...