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

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

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 Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. Its deepest point, known as the Challenger Deep, reaches approximately 10,984 meters (36,037 feet) below sea level, making it the deepest known ...

Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard making their way to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960 (NOAA Ship Collection) The crew of their support vessel had located the deepest point by pretty ...

The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 20,000 feet to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench, is known as the hadal zone.It's named after Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology ...

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

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.