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

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

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

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

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

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

Matsya 6000 is capable of carrying three people to a depth of 6,000 meters beneath the ocean surface. This advanced vehicle, ...

New research reveals how the speed of ocean currents and the shape of the seabed influence the amount of heat flowing ...

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng and geoscientist Du Mengran have been named to Nature's annual list of the top 10 people who have shaped science for 2025.

The newly discovered Taam Ja Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay offers a glimpse into an extreme ecosystem.

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...