Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in the ...

In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation. So that’s not surprising that only a ...

Imagine a place where every single inch of your skin is under eight tons of weight. That's not some planet in a galaxy far, far away: it's the bottom of the bottom of the ocean. At its deepest point ...