Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

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 ...

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...

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

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

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 ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

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 ...