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 ...

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, ...

R obot gliders scouted the waters around one of the world’s largest icebergs, A-68a, before it melted and broke apart into ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

Tropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great ...

Long-term data from a deep-sea observatory shows hurricanes transport reef sediments and pollutants to the deep ocean, ...

Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

In an unprecedented discovery, scientists have successfully revived algae buried beneath the Baltic Sea seabed for nearly ...