The Mariana Trench is the deepest ocean trench in the world, located in the Pacific Ocean. Learn about its depth, location, ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

Particularly alarming for service members are studies showing that microplastics were present in 99% of post-mortem lung ...

U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ...

The Indian Ocean lies between Africa and Australia. It is the world’s third largest ocean and is known for warm waters, powerful monsoon winds, major international trade routes, deep oceanic trenches ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

In the latest report prepared by a Japanese government earthquake task force, it was estimated that up to 298,000 people ...

A leading ocean engineer says long-held public beliefs that the Mariana Trench or Saipan's coral reef would shield the ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan on Dec. 8, prompting warnings of a tsunami as high as 10-feet and ...

The federal government is eyeing a potential offshore mining project near the Mariana Trench, in an area around 128 nautical miles east of Saipan and around the same distance east of Guam, in response ...