Scientists found ancient freshwater trapped beneath the ocean floor off New England, preserved for thousands of years.

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling ...

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single ...

It’s the latest twist in the controversial global race to mine the deep sea for rare-earth elements and other valuable ...

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa has long looked like a frozen cue ball, its bright shell of ice hiding a global ocean that many astrobiologists see as one of the most promising places for life beyond Earth. New ...

Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the ...

Researchers hope to find answers to the formation of the hidden freshwater system, as well as its significance and evolution.

For the first time, a science team directly documented and extensively sampled a freshened water system beneath the ocean ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

A daring expedition used a camera lowered nearly a kilometre into the heart of Thwaites Glacier. The footage offers a new glimpse into hidden ice structures and melting patterns that could reshape sea ...