An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains why.

One of the most powerful earthquakes in history triggered a tsunami that made landfall in Russia, Japan and the US.

A team of researchers discovered a “flourishing” ecosystem of clams, tube worms and other creatures over 30,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean. The discoveries mark the “deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist,

Researchers discovered communities of creatures living in frigid, pitch-black waters under high pressure

That’s what an international team of scientists did last summer. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers took a manned submersible to the bottom of deep-sea trenches in an area in the northwest Pacific Ocean,