ASHBURN, Va. — A construction site turned deadly Thursday morning after a trench collapsed in Loudoun County, trapping a worker underground and sparking a rescue effort.

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 successfull ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

Most tourist attractions are money pits by definition. But some are worse offenders than others -- especially when not worth the cost of admission. Seven attractions top the list as the most ...

War can not only be fought with traditional weapons in a trench. Conflict has evolved and not only has it changed, but so have the battlefield and the type of objects used. A new s ...

Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...