CHALLENGER DEEP, MARIANA TRENCH, SOUTHEAST OF GUAM (WHTM) — The first dive to the deepest part of Earth’s oceans had its start with a record-breaking ascent into Earth’s atmosphere. On May 27, 1931, ...

The quest for the cosmic ray was a four-ring circus last week. The main purpose of Belgian Professor Auguste Piccard’s stratosphere balloon flight (see p. 32) was to record the effect of cosmic rays ...

When newsmen at Zurich, Switzerland last week wondered why Professor Auguste Piccard continued to postpone his balloon ascension into the stratosphere, even when weather appeared favorable, the ...

(WHTM) — It sounds like the title of a Jules Verne novel from the 19th century, but it’s been described as the last great adventure of the 20th century-and it used a balloon design from the 18th ...

There are explorers who plumb great depths: Bob Ballard, Jacques Cousteau, or even James Cameron. Then there are adventurers who take to the skies: Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong, and Amelia Earhart, ...

GENEVA — Jacques Piccard, a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man, died Saturday, his son's company said. He was 86. Piccard died at his Lake Geneva ...