When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial ...

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

Far below the familiar blue of the surface oceans, geophysicists are piecing together evidence for a vast, hidden reservoir ...

Taam Ja reveals a 274-meter abyss in Chetumal Bay, the second-deepest blue hole on the planet and a mystery hidden beneath ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

New research shows how warm water moves under Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, revealing how hidden currents and seafloor shape ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...