We see a boat on the water and a deep ocean trench below it. The deepest depths of the sea are found in the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. But what is the ...

The vastly deep ocean trenches at the edge of continents have been something like the Mars of oceanography — off limits until recently. Now they are providing information nearly as freaky as that ...

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 Pacific ...

While discovering new microbial organisms is interesting, finding larger animals is even more thrilling. Over 25,000 feet ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was ...

An American explorer has set a new deep-diving record in the Mariana Trench An American explorer has set a new deep diving record in the Mariana Trench, and in the process uncovered just how far human ...

On the deepest dive ever executed into the Mariana Trench, an American investor-turned-explorer discovered what appeared to be plastic bag and other litter nearly seven miles below the surface of the ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Talk about extremes. Scientists at the Scripps Institution of ...

An ocean explorer from Dallas, Texas has set the newest world record for deepest dive ever completed in the Mariana Trench. Setting their sights on the deepest known point on Earth's seabed, Victor ...

Alan Jamieson remembers seeing it for the first time: a small, black fiber floating in a tube of liquid. It resembled a hair, but when Jamieson examined it under a microscope, he realized that the ...

Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 6.8 miles (35,853 feet/10,928 meters) to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the ...