The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coasts of Japan and the Philippines — at a depth of around 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) below sea level — is famous for being the deepest ...

While many think of space as the “undiscovered country,” Earth’s oceans are unknown to us, too. Now, scientists have listened in on the deepest, most unexplored part of our oceans — the Mariana Trench ...

How do fish survive in the extreme conditions of the deep sea—amid icy cold, darkness, and immense water pressure? A genomic study provides surprising answers: A single mutated gene might have ...

From the deep ocean floor to vast underground caverns beneath our feet, these places challenge our understanding of the world.

Trash discovered at the ocean’s deepest point sadly illustrates the depth of the plastic pollution problem Until Victor Vescovo landed his submersible there recently, no human had been to the seabed’s ...

Titanic director James Cameron described a “desolate” and “alien” environment on the bottom of the sea after a record-setting solo submarine dive to the deepest point in the world’s oceans You can ...

1:35 Trash found on ocean floor in deepest-ever sub dive of Mariana Trench Human beings have infiltrated the far corners of the Earth, and now, after an American man reached the deepest depths of the ...

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...

The byproducts of humankind's civilization has reached literally the deepest depths. On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor found something he could have found ...