A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

The Mariana Trench runs more than 1,500 miles long and spans more than 40 miles across. At its deepest point, known as Challenger Deep, the trench descends approximately 11,000 meters (6.8 miles ...

Using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), researchers were able to view the seafloor of the Mariana Trench for the first ...

Life thrives in extreme deep-sea conditions, with new discoveries revealing unique ecosystems powered by chemosynthesis.

A retired naval officer and wealthy investor will begin carrying paying passengers into the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth. The eight-day trip, which includes ...

Italian microbrand U-Boat created a titanium dive watch with a 10,000m water resistance, and you can actually buy it.

For example, in 2020 a new species found in the Mariana Trench was eventually named after the plastic found in its guts, and in 2023 microplastics were discovered in a cave system that had been ...

Metagenomic sequencing of 1,194 samples generated the 92-terabasepair (Tbp) Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) dataset, identifying 7,564 microbial species, 89.4% of which had ...

If you were to dive to the very bottom of the Mariana Trench, you would be squished like a bug. The pressure at the trench's deepest point is 8 tons (7,252 kg) per sqaure inch.

Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the Mariana Trench, died at his Myrtle Point home.