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 ...

The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, plunging nearly 36,000 ...

Donald Trump is making headlines. The greatest treasure of all time has just been discovered on the ocean floor, and the US ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

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

Technology alone cannot save us; true change demands inner clarity and honest self-reflection. As the Earth faces critical ...

The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...

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

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...