Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

What creatures lurk in the pitch-black oceans of Challenger Deep? The deepest part of the Earth’s oceans is a portion of the ...

It is found within the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, the deepest trench on Earth. The Challenger Deep plunges to an estimated 10,935 metres (roughly 6.8 miles) below sea level - more than 1.2 ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

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Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth. So deep that if you dropped ... And all that goes to show that even here, in the most remote place on the planet, where only four ...

Mr. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928m to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest place on Earth ...