Scientists have discovered a vast underground ocean located about 700 kilometers below the Earth's surface. This new finding reveals an ocean three times larger than all the Earth's surface oceans ...

Water trapped in minerals The underground ocean is neither in liquid form nor ice; the water is trapped in the molecular structure of minerals within the Earth's mantle, specifically in a mineral ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

According to the study “Dehydration Melting at the Top of the Lower Mantle” (2014), this discovery suggests a “whole-Earth water cycle,” with water moving not only between surface and ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions of years ... The incident could have created enough heat for Pluto to form an underground ocean, Adeene Denton, the lead researcher ...

Ocean ecosystems play a critical ... is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals alive today to fossil fuels buried underground. It’s a key building block in the foods ...