Yet we know very little about their inhabitants, especially on the ocean floor. Since the 1960s, multiple missions—some autonomous, others manned—have sought to explore the deepest part of the Pacific ...

The first explorers visited the trench in 1960 on a brief expedition, after which there had been no missions until Hollywood director James Cameron made the first solo trip to the bottom in 2012.

Located in the Mariana Trench, over 6.7 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean's surface, Challenger Deep is a mysterious and largely unexplored abyss. Wright, dubbed "Deepsea Dawn," ventured into the ...

These findings mark the latest results from the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) Project, a collaboration launched in 2021 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of ...