In the depths of the Pacific, strikingly blue mud contains evidence of life in conditions previously considered uninhabitable ...
The goo, which is heavily alkaline serpentinite mud, contained lipid biomarkers, supporting the theory that early life began near ancient mud volcanoes ...
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 ...
Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...
A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from Star Wars has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert ...
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 ...
The Pacific plate is subducted beneath the Mariana Plate, creating the Mariana trench, and (further on) the arc of the Mariana Islands, as water trapped in the plate is released and explodes upward to ...