Susan Casey has long been enchanted by the deep ocean. For her book “The Underworld,” she finally got to visit that unforgiving landscape herself. By Alexandra Alter Some writers go to the ends of the ...

We know more about the moon than we do about the oceans, the waters of which take up most of our planet. That may change thanks to a worldwide effort to chart the bottom of the seas, from coral reefs ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean" By Susan Casey, published by Doubleday, 352 pages, $32 On sale Aug. 1 It’s ...

In 2019, the multimillionaire and explorer Victor Vescovo made headlines when he became the first person to visit the deepest parts of all five of Earth’s oceans. But arguably the real star of the ...

Ever wondered about life down in the depths of the ocean? For many of us, the deep ocean remains a mystery. But for curious explorers like Susan Casey, the answers are slowly being revealed. In her ...

Light shines through the water of a rocky cave in the deep sea. Ocean explorer Jon Copley has completed dozens of dives to the darkest corners of the deep sea. Yet he is still amazed every time he ...

British biologist Sir David Attenborough will celebrate his 99th birthday two days after the publication of his latest book, “Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness,” co-written with long-time BBC ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

DECADES before Trieste, a deep-submergence vehicle, entered the Mariana trench in the western Pacific Ocean, a new kind of prototype submersible was lowered into the Atlantic waters off Nonsuch Island ...

The deep sea, which encompasses waters deeper than 660 feet (200 meters), is home to alien-like creatures, but we know far more about these inky depths than people think, ocean explorer Jon Copley ...