Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in ...

on an expedition to the little-known seamounts in the Mariana Trench, the world's deepest natural trench. Researchers will study the topography, hydrology and bioecology of the western Pacific ...

Their work is part of the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project, which they claim provides the “first systematic view of the ecosystem in the hadal zone.” The hadal ...

Chinese research vessel Science left the eastern city of Qingdao Saturday, on an expedition to the little-known seamounts in the Mariana Trench, the world's deepest natural trench. Researchers will ...