Final target of Trieste and her crew is the Marianas Trench, which runs east of Guam and is believed to include the deepest place in the earth’s oceans, about 37,000 ft. below the surface.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

Larger quantities of water shear off the land surface and move to the ditch. Elevated banks are usually included on the sides of the trench to allow the water to pool, but not overflow. Once the water ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

"It looks like we have a great haul of new, undiscovered species," researcher Alex Rogers said. "We will be north of 100 new ...

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

More from Science A triangle pointing right which indicates ... Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth. So deep that if you dropped Mount Everest inside, its peak would still ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ocean trench, called the Mariana Trench. Located east of Guam, the 7-mile-deep Mariana Trench formed when one tectonic place was pushed under another.

That's because, the Mariana Trench's environment is very hostile ... She covers everything from Lego sets and science kits through to laptops for students. If it helps you learn, she'll help ...