The Japan Trench is located on the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a region of special interest in earthquake and deep-water research. "It is here that oceanic plates bend, form ultra-deep-water trenches ...

The discovery of the mysterious deep-sea creature breaks the record previously held by snailfish discovered in the Mariana Trench, the planet’s deepest point in the Pacific Ocean: One in 2017 of ...

The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

Days later, the team also collected two fish in traps in the Japan Trench at 8,022 meters (26,319 feet) deep. "We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish; there is so much more ...

Japan's 2011 megaquake left a scar at the bottom of the sea. Scientists finally explored it. A towering cliff in the Japan Trench of the Pacific Ocean “is unlike anything that’s been observed ...

The Japan Trench is a deep oceanic trench found to the east of Japan in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean. The trench is estimated to be 26,398 feet (8,046 meters) at its deepest.

The unknown snailfish species, of the genus Pseudoliparis, was recorded swimming in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan at a depth of 8,336 meters — or more than 27,000 feet down.

An image of Vescovo's descent craft. Him and a team of scientists have now descended into several deep-sea trenches for the first time, as well as the epicenter of the 2011 Japan earthquake.

A Japan research agency has built an extensive database of underwater garbage. ... Like this mannequin head, found in 1991 at around 20,500 feet deep in the Japan Trench.