Led by the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research ... Recalling the submersible’s descent, Zhao described seeing bioluminescent organisms glowing against the blackness.

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

Chinese researchers develop a shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides at 10,600m depths, aiding deep-sea research ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated ...

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 ...

A deep-sea robot is released onto the seafloor of the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,666 meters. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7 ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication ...

The Chinese human-occupied vehicle Fendouzhe reached the seabed of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth, to photograph its occupants. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] In a ...