This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from James Lawrence Powell’s book “Mysteries of the Deep“. When HMS Challenger set sail in 1872, some scientists ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it unique among the cosmos. But we may have underestimated how deep beneath our ...

Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep ...

Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary microbial world thrives, challenging previous assumptions about where life can ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny organisms persist in darkness, pressure, and scarcity. This hidden world ...

The deep sea is the largest habitat on the planet, and with our very planet depending on it, it’s a bit unnerving that there’s still so much we don’t understand about this realm way beneath the ...

How slow can life go? How deep? At what point does biology become geology? Dig down and you will find some answers. If you go to the bottom of the ocean, first drill and drill and drill until you ...