Meet the Spilhaus projection, an ocean-centric map of the world's waters ... the Mariana Islands. Challenger Deep, the deepest of the Mariana Trench's three "pools," was named after the British ...

Civilian exploration may be the official mission of a Chinese deep-sea research ship that sailed clockwise around Australia ...

A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...

below sea level and collect hundreds of biological samples from the hadal zone in the Yap Trench, the Philippine Basin, and the Mariana Trench—the deepest ocean trench on Earth. Of the more than ...