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, ...

Mme. Auguste Piccard put her foot down. Middle-aged professors, she declared, especially her husband, should not risk their lives year after year making record-breaking balloon flights into the ...

Some 30 years ago left-handed Auguste Piccard, gangling, mischievous Munich student, had a barber-shop shave, bet the barber that “his whiskers grew faster than any others in the world.” Shortly after ...

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 ...

Eccentric Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard with his sister in law, Jeannette Piccard as they ascend in a balloon. Credit: Photo: STAFF/AFP/Getty Images Oh dear. The nice, shambling, middle-aged geek ...