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

The bold question-askers at What If take you deep into five ocean trenches that few humans have ever explored.

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the ...

Vast fields of sea cucumbers and huge tendrils of bacteria that live without the energy of the sun have been filmed at depths of over 26,000 feet beneath the ocean surface in Chile's Atacama Trench.

While the deep ocean is considered one of the most important, and relatively safest, places for mercury to end up, the rates of accumulation were up to 56 times greater than prior estimates.

The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through. These trenches mark areas where continental plates collide in what are known as ...

Researchers have detected man-made mercury pollution at the bottom of the Mariana Trench—the deepest oceanic trench on the planet. A team of scientists identified methylmercury—a toxic form of ...

The Mariana Trench lies in the Pacific Ocean, it is the deepest ocean trench on the planet. Stretching 2,400km, and at 10,935m deep, it is the focus of much deep-sea research.

The deepest oceanic trench on Earth is home to a surprisingly active community of bacteria, suggesting other trenches may be hotspots of microbial life, researchers say. Life in the deep ocean ...

Hadal trenches, with their deepest locations situated in the so-called hadal zone, the deepest parts of the ocean in water depth >6km, are the least-explored environment on Earth, linking the ...

Samples From Deep Ocean Trench Contain Alarming Levels of Industrial Chemicals PCBs were banned worldwide in the 1980s, but they're showing up in remote parts of the ocean.

The never-before-seen fish was spotted 5 miles below the ocean's surface in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...