The Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world’s oceans, has long captivated scientists and explorers alike. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, this mysterious underwater canyon reaches depths ...

The Mariana snailfish or hadal snailfish might hold the record for the deepest fish in existence. They are relatively small, ...

The Mariana Trench is more than 7 miles (11 kilometers) deep. Although it is a toxic environment, some creatures of the deep thrive there.

A genomic study provides surprising answers: A single mutated gene might have widespread effects across the deep sea. Additionally, traces of human activity are found even in the ocean’s deepest ...

To what extent did the nuclear tests in the 20th century affect the planet? Evidently, even the creatures at the Mariana Trench have remnants of radioactive carbon in their muscles.

The Mariana Trench in the northern Pacific is the deepest part of the world's oceans. You might think a place that remote would be untouched by human activity. But the Mariana Trench is polluted ...

A human can’t survive in the Mariana Trench without protection. At its deepest, the trench plunges 35,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean to a region reigned by crushing pressure and ...

Amphipods are little crustaceans found in most waters on Earth. One species, Hirondellea gigas, dwells at the bottom of the sea — the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, some 35,797 feet ...

To test the performance of the robot in the Mariana Trench, the team attached it to a "lander" that dropped to the seabed, about 35,000 feet beneath the surface.

The world's oceans are big and dark and deep. They cover approximately 70% of the planet’s surface and contain a huge portion of Earth’s biodiversity. If you want to find some of the weirdest ...