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 ...

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

What the Soviets Found on Venus reveals a hellish surface, reanalyzed Venera data, and why those probes still guide today’s ...

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

Longyearbyen, Norway, and Ushuaia, Argentina, offer travelers the opportunity to see unspoiled landscapes, rare wildlife, and vast glacial ice—along with a spirit of endurance and camaraderie.

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

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 ...