The Mariana Trench is about 1,580 miles (2,550 kilometers) long and located to the east of the Mariana Islands, which give the trench its name, according to the University of Washington.

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. Crescent-shaped, the trench spans about 1,580 ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the ...

For years, a strange and unsettling noise coming from the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, puzzled scientists. These mysterious sounds, which resemble whale calls, have now been ...

The Mariana Trench is incredibly deep, reaching a depth of 36,201 feet! This depth is so immense that it could easily submerge Mount Everest within its abyss, in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian Ocean. . | Credit: Han Xu et al. (2025) Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea.

Adam Summers/UW 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 ...

Here’s how it works. The Mariana Trench is the deepest known point of the ocean, plunging down further than the height of Mount Everest. (Image credit: Philipp Tur/Getty Images) ...

Earth Science Deepest Virus Ever Detected Unearthed by Scientists in the Mariana Trench The bacteria-hunting virus is named vB_HmeY_H4907 and was found 8,900 meters below the surface of the ocean.

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

A new study has revealed the exact origin of the Pacific Ocean's mysterious "biotwang" noises, which were first detected by underwater surveys near the Mariana Trench in 2014.