Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the deepest place on Earth. In the Mariana Trench, they encountered ...

Now, snailfish are certainly odd ... But perhaps the most surprising thing you'll discover inside the Mariana Trench is this: Plastic. In 1998, a remotely operated submersible detected a plastic ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

It appears to be an alien planet. What is the ocean's deepest point? What lives in the Mariana Trench—and what has been discovered recently?

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

The Mariana Trench is a deep and long hole in the Pacific ... 7,000m-down and a pink snailfish at 8,000m. But he also saw evidence of plastic pollution - something that other expeditions have ...

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have conducted an extensive investigation ...

The Mariana Trench sits nearly 11,000 meters (7 miles ... Along with the new species of snailfish, researchers filmed several other rarely-seen sea creatures. That includes supergiant amphipods ...

Since the 1960s, multiple missions—some autonomous, others manned—have sought to explore the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench. Over 30,000 feet deep, it could completely submerge ...