Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That’s why I felt the news that the Trump administration wants to open the seafloor near the Mariana Trench to deep-sea mining ...

The Pacific Ocean is home to some of the deepest points on the planet. In fact, four of the top six deepest spots in the world can be found in the Pacific. The Pacific’s basin is uniquely low, which ...

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died. He was 92. His daughter ...