The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, plunging to a staggering depth of about 36,000 feet (10,994 ...

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

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

Underwater surveys picked up mysterious “bio-twang” sounds from the Mariana Trench in 2014. A new study reveals where the sci-fi-esque noises are coming from. The Mariana Trench lies in the ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

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

The trench is named after the nearby Mariana Islands, which are named after Las Marianas, in honor of the Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria. In 1668, Spain formally colonized the Mariana Islands ...

It's the closest many of us will get to the Mariana Trench. Editor's note: This story was updated at 11:16 a.m. EST on May 9 to reflect that E/V Nautilus departed from Apra, Guam, not from California.

The Mariana Trench, named after the nearby islands, is found in the Pacific and is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth, going as far down as 36,000 feet underwater.

To the east, there is the Mariana Trench and an arc of about 60 underwater volcanic monuments, also called seamounts. To the west of this arc, the seafloor is slowly spreading.

Examining samples taken from the Shinkai Seep Field, which is 5,743 meters (18,842 feet) underwater, they discovered that the precipitate's surface was electrically charged, and that the size and ...

An international team of researchers found the phage within sediment from the Mariana Trench, brought up from a depth of 8,900 meters (29,200 feet).