The Mariana Trench, home to the Challenger Deep, is an alluring yet dangerous place to visit. Here’s what to know about the deepest point on Earth.

But the Challenger Deep lies even further — in the hadalpelagic zone, or the hadal zone. It’s named for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld thought to rule over the dead. 4.

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

Because instrumentation and technology are constantly improving, the estimated depth of the Challenger Deep has been updated as recently as 2021 to about 35,876 feet (10,935 meters). The-CNN-Wire ...

Deep-sea explorer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron sits in a scale model of the Deepsea Challenger's pilot chamber at an exhibition about his history-making ocean expeditions in ...

The BBC’s Climate and Science correspondent Georgina Rannard explains why we know so little about what’s going on in the deepest parts of the ocean and some of the discoveries that have been made ...

The Challenger Deep, which is named after the British Royal Navy survey vessel HMS Challenger, has a maximum depth of approximately 10,984 meters (36,037 feet) below sea level.

Explorer Victor Vescovo journeyed 10,928 meters (35,853 feet) to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, believed to be the deepest point on the planet, on April 28.