An expedition in the Red Sea found several brine pools that appear to be fed by underwater volcanoes, which may be home to ...

Learn more about BLOBS, mantel plumes 1,500 miles into Earth's mantel that contribute to massive volcanic eruptions on the surface.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

Mitchell Caverns feels like stepping into a fantasy world with its bizarre formations. The two connected caverns, El Pakiva ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their environment, a new study suggests.

Earth’s oceans keep long, detailed logs of climate change, and some of the best pages come from fusulines – shells smaller than a grain of sand. A recent study shows that these tiny record‑keepers ...

The study, led by Jingchuan Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, reveals that a dense slab of oceanic crust sank hundreds of kilometers underground, preserving a long-lost ...

Tectonic pulses beneath Africa are splitting the continent apart to produce a new ocean, according to University of Southampton scientists.