The Mariana Trench is believed to be too extreme for large predators to survive. When cameras were lowered into its depths, researchers expected little more than darkness and silence. Instead, the ...

James Cameron has commissioned a team of engineers to build a manned submersible capable of reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans where only two humans have ...

China has live streamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench as part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the planet. Fendouzhe is ...

The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even treatments to aid space travel. We’ve only scratched the surface of what thrives in the deepest ...