R esearchers have detected hints of life where they did not believe it could exist. Findings regarding this discovery have ...

Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The knowledge of how Earth recycled its crust revealed that fragments of continents slowly peeled away and swept deep beneath ...

An ambitious mission aims to protect one of the Mediterranean’s last great frontiers: Caprera Canyon, a vast underwater valley off Sardinia’s coast.

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Look no further than the depths of earth’s oceans to discover mind-blowing creatures that look like they come from another ...

Adventure travel has long captured imaginations, but cruising to destinations like Patagonia, the Galápagos, and the Amazon ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...