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 ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

Dubbed the Mariana snailfish, it swims in the Mariana Trench near Guam, at a depth of about 26,200 feet (8,000 meters). [Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench] ...

The trench is the deepest place on Earth, deeper than Mount Everest is high, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Japan and Australia.

An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.

[Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench] A map of the research area around the Mariana Trench. Guam and the Challenger Deep lie just out of frame to the south.

Tiny creatures in the Mariana Trench have high levels of industrial contamination. The new findings suggest that even Earth's most remote locales feel the effects of human beings.

Plastic proliferates at the bottom of world's deepest ocean trench The remote Mariana Trench offers up yet another plastic bag during a recent deep submersible dive.

Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11km to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Down there he found amazing sea creatures, but also found a plastic bag and sweet wrappers.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth, void of light with the pressure of 48 jumbo jets. Yet life finds a way to survive. Very weird life.

Microscopic bacteria thrive in seawater at the lowest point on Earth's surface, the Mariana Trench.