Challenger Deep sits at the bottom of the western Pacific’s Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters below the ocean surface.

Challenger Deep, the lowest point on Earth’s surface, sits in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific near Guam, plunging ...

A new study, published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, provides a profound look at life up to nearly 10 kilometers below the ocean's surface in the Japan, Ryukyu, and Izu-Ogasawara trenches. The ...

The elusive and “iconic” deep-sea goblin shark, for the first time ever, has been spotted in its natural habitat — thousands ...

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment surface and grazes on bacteria or organic materials in the sediment. It does ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on Earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

China livestreamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Friday, part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the planet. The ...

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan's volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the seafloor, especially near deep-ocean trenches where measurements are often ...

Goblin sharks have spent years in public imagination as something half-seen, half-legendary, a pale, long-snouted predator ...