The goo, which is heavily alkaline serpentinite mud, contained lipid biomarkers, supporting the theory that early life began ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

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 ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed surprising diversity. And also trash. Reading time 3 minutes Earth’s hadal zone ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth, void of light with the pressure of 48 jumbo jets. You'll still find crustaceans, translucent snailfish, and sea cucumbers in it. The most surprising ...

Researchers have detected man-made mercury pollution at the bottom of the Mariana Trench—the deepest oceanic trench on the planet. A team of scientists identified methylmercury—a toxic form of mercury ...

What creatures lurk in the pitch-black oceans of Challenger Deep? The deepest part of the Earth’s oceans is a portion of the Mariana Trench that reaches a maximum depth of 36,070 feet. Believe it or ...

The deepest part of the ocean is known as the hadal zone, where there is total darkness and extreme pressure. These mysterious regions are between 6,000 and 11,000 meters (3.7 to 6.8 miles) under the ...

The approximately two inches in length shrimp-like animal was caught at a depth of 20,000 feet in the Mariana Trench. The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest point on Earth's surface, ...