A recent Japanese government report warns of a potential megaquake in the Nankai Trough, which could result in devastating ...

In 1960, a time before humans made the giant leap for humankind as Neil Armstrong lay his foot on the moon, two researchers ...

Great swathes of the ocean floor are at basically the same elevation ... "Ring of Fire" encircling the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench is a subduction fault where the older crustal rock of ...

In 2021, Chinese scientists boarded a deep-sea sub, Fendouzhe, and ventured to the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western ... travel across the ocean floor. There was also the hadal snailfish ...

It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...

The trench also has what Bartlett calls... Bartlett: These little sea pigs. Narrator: They're small, transparent sea cucumbers that crawl along the ocean floor on tentacle-like legs. But perhaps ...

Scientific mission collects specimens from ocean depths of 6,000 metres in first crewed exploration of Tasman Sea trench.

in Earth’s deepest oceanic trench, located in the Pacific Ocean. Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

The map shows features including canyons, mountains and plains, and even identifies a new deepest point – a 7,432m trench called ... Features of the ocean floor help determine how water masses ...

at the bottom of the trench, the top of the mountain would still be under water. Image caption, Image of the Earth from a satellite. The ocean floor can be flat or it can have caves and mountains.