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Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters.

Thousands of never-before-seen microbe species have been found in the deepest point of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench. These strange microorganisms are like nothing we see on the surface, ...

In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation. So that’s not surprising that only a ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

The bathyscaphe Trieste sailing in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on September 15, 1959. The vessel flew the flag of the United States, as it was owned by the US Navy, and the flag of Switzerland, ...

Misha Glenny and guests discuss what explorations are revealing of the life and geology at the bottom of the deepest oceanic trench in the world, much deeper than Everest is high.

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 ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...