The Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world’s oceans, has long captivated scientists and explorers alike. Located in ...

By comparison, Mount Everest stands at 29,026 feet (8,848 m) above sea level, meaning the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is 7,044 feet (2,147 m) deeper than Everest is tall.

An illustration of Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth. (Image credit: DOERS) The deepest part of the ocean is found in the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean.

This part is located beneath the Western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench – which itself is several hundred km southwest of the island of Guam, a US island territory.

— -- The deepest part of the ocean -- the Mariana Trench -- is proving to be eerily noisy. Scientists recorded ambient noise for three weeks from a hydrophone placed 36,000 feet below the ...

The trench is the deepest place on Earth, deeper than Mount Everest is high, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Japan and Australia. Crescent-shaped, the trench spans about 1,580 ...

Victor Vescovo will be the fourth person to go down to the deepest point of the Earth when he takes his submarine down to the Mariana Trench. He and a crew of more than 40 people have been ...

Epic trip: The Mariana Trench dive is part of a series of dives known as the Five Deeps Expedition: an attempt to visit the deepest point in each of the world’s five oceans.Vescovo, who is ...

Victor Vescovo will be the fourth person to go down to the deepest point of the Earth when he takes his submarine down to the Mariana Trench. New strain in Calif. Get the USA TODAY app Start the ...

A study released in October 2018 documented what is still the deepest known piece of plastic—a flimsy shopping bag—found at a depth of 36,000 feet inside the Mariana Trench.