I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Despite its isolation, the Mariana Trench is tainted by pollution, with microplastics found even in its remote depths, ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.

and the large-scale display of creatures such as salmon snailfish and vampire squid, found far below the reach of sunlight in a region known as the midnight zone. At a time when rising ocean ...

The Mariana snailfish or hadal snailfish might hold the record for the deepest fish in existence. They are relatively small, with adults measuring between 4 and 11 inches long. They have semi ...