The federal government is eyeing a potential offshore mining project near the Mariana Trench, in an area around 128 nautical ...

Zap Energy has generated pressure that's 10 times stronger than the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a new milestone in its race ...

A new federal proposal to explore deep-sea mining in waters near the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and close ...

We see a boat on the water and a deep ocean trench below it. The deepest depths of the sea are found in the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. But what is the ...

Efforts to expand deep-sea mining are alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders, who worry mining risks fisheries and food ...

Underwater surveys picked up mysterious “bio-twang” sounds from the Mariana Trench in 2014. A new study reveals where the sci-fi-esque noises are coming from. The Mariana Trench lies in the Pacific ...

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The goo, which is heavily alkaline serpentinite mud, contained lipid biomarkers, supporting the theory that early life began ...

On the deepest dive ever executed into the Mariana Trench, an American investor-turned-explorer discovered what appeared to be plastic bag and other litter nearly seven miles below the surface of the ...

The vastly deep ocean trenches at the edge of continents have been something like the Mars of oceanography — off limits until recently. Now they are providing information nearly as freaky as that ...

A plastic bag drifted more than 36,000 feet below the ocean's surface and landed in the Mariana Trench. Scientists believe it to be the deepest known piece of plastic garbage. "The influence of ...

An international team of scientists has identified a species of bacteria that can eat away oil spills from ocean water. Researchers from the University of East Anglia, together with colleagues Russia ...