Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 meters below sea ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

The newly discovered ice quakes in Greenland’s ice stream challenge existing models of glacier movement, showing that ice can ...

Long before reality TV, the Oak Island treasure hunt captivated collectors—Coins magazine explored the legend in 1965, ...