Challenger Deep sits at the bottom of the western Pacific’s Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters below the ocean surface. That is nearly seven miles of water pressing down on anything that dares to ...

These trenches, like the Mariana and Tonga, are formed where oceanic plates dive beneath continental plates, creating geological wounds. Image Credits: Google Gemini ...

To celebrate World Ocean Day 2026, the National Maritime Museum is publishing a new illustrated book, The Ocean Map, and hosting a free festival inviting families to explore the wonders of the ocean.

At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters below the Pacific surface, water temperatures hover just above freezing and no trace of sunlight has reached the seafloor for as long as ...

Hadal trenches, with their deepest locations situated in the so-called hadal zone, the deepest parts of the ocean in water depth >6km, are the least-explored environment on Earth, linking the Earth's ...

I was part of a team that recently discovered human-made pollutants in one of the deepest and most remote places on Earth – the Atacama Trench, which goes down to a depth of 8,000 meters in the ...