Finding anything at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, is extremely exciting for scientists.

The deepest part of the planet’s ocean has been found and some say it looks like an alien world. This is because it is deep to the extent that one would conclude that the place cannot hold life but ...

But the size of the shelf and how quickly it descends toward the deepest parts of the ocean, known as the abyssal plain, varies from place to place. Early oceanographers thought the ocean bottom ...

People have explored deeper depths before, notably in the Pacific Ocean, where the Challenger Deep is believed to be the lowest spot on the sea floor in the world. Film director James Cameron went ...

Together, these oceans contain 97% of the Earth's water, with about 80% of their vast depths remaining unexplored. The largest and deepest ocean, covering 168 million square kilometres (33% of ...

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?