Manned submersibles capable of reaching full-ocean ... Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

Credit: Ocean Exploration Trust The Mariana Trench is one of the ocean's biggest enigmas, housing untold marine life and geological features within its nearly 7-mile depths. A new ocean expedition ...

life flourishing around deep methane seeps, and possibly 60 new species. So, after Beihang University’s successful tests in the Mariana Trench and the South China Sea, the researchers are ...

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface ...

A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to ...

Scientists think they may have finally solved the mystery of unexplained noises coming from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The eerie sounds were first heard coming from the Mariana Trench ...

traces of human activity are found even in the ocean’s deepest trench. Humans know more about the moon than the deep sea—and correspondingly little about the animals in the Mariana Trench, the deepest ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust’s (OET) exploration vessel Nautilus departed from Apra Harbor on Wednesday, beginning a 22-day ...

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and ... shows that deep-sea fishes, despite originating from very different branches of the fish tree of life, have evolved similar ...