Earth's oceans are getting greener, scientists have found using satellite imagery. More than 56% of the Earth's oceans have changed color over the past 20 years. It's not clear exactly what's ...

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

The deepest place in the Pacific Ocean (and on Earth) is the Mariana Trench.The trench's deepest point is the Challenger Deep near the U.S. territory of Guam — a plunge that's almost 36,000 feet ...

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

Our oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface, but over 80% of them remain unexplored.In fact, it is often claimed that we know more about the surface of Mars and the Moon than about the ...

Deep Earth has oceans' worth of water, $10 diamond reveals. A dirty, $10 diamond with a prize inside has helped reveal that there are vast quantities of water stored deep inside the Earth.

Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive “giant whirlpools,” according to new research.. Scientists analyzed ...

Considering that the transition zone is a roughly 250-kilometer-thick shell that accounts for about 7 percent of Earth’s mass (by comparison, the crust is only 1 percent), it could contain several ...

So limited is our understanding of the oceans that “we’ve only described about 10% of the species in the deep sea—as far as we know, because of course we don’t know how many species there ...

The interaction between Earth and Mars's gravitational influences may be linked to a 2.4-million-year cycle of ocean currents deep beneath the surface of the sea, according to a new study in the ...