Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

TOKYO: Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...