It appears to be an alien planet. What is the ocean's deepest point? What lives in the Mariana Trench—and what has been discovered recently?

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the deepest place on Earth. In the Mariana Trench, they encountered ...

A Chinese deep-sea expedition to the Mariana Trench has uncovered an astonishing array of life forms thriving at depths once thought nearly inhospitable. Fendouzhe, a submersible that can carry three ...

Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth ... Now, like lobsters, these animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, which you normally wouldn't find down here ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

Xu Xun, director of BGI-Research, emphasized the importance of the research in redefining human understanding of deep-sea ...

Relying on China's self-developed human occupied vehicle (HOV) Fendouzhe, Chinese scientists have completed an exploration of the hadal zone, the deepest part of the ocean floor, and identified 7,564 ...

Under these extreme conditions, life does exist, represented by deep-sea organisms specialized to these extremes. The Challenger Deep and the Mariana Trench provide scientists with a special ...

Since the 1960s, multiple missions—some autonomous, others manned—have sought to explore the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench. Over 30,000 feet deep, it could completely submerge ...