Today, you can visit and explore some shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea. Others have decayed beyond recognition and others ...

Mantle-flow models suggest prolonged continental uplift, followed by sinking and burial, helped form and preserve the Great ...

The International Union of Geological Sciences recognizes the site of the world's first hydrothermal vent discovery, made ...

The Galápagos hydrothermal vents—site of the world's first vent discovery in 1977—have been designated among the IUGS ...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off Japan’s eastern coast Friday evening, about 155 miles east-southeast of Tokyo, ...

It’s called the Great Unconformity, and it’s a gap in the geologic record,” says Nicolas Flament, a geoscientist at the ...

Scientists now suspect that some of the ocean’s tiniest pollutants may be responsible. A new study suggests that microscopic ...

A Penn State-led study published in Nature Communications finds that AMOC's influence on the North Atlantic cold blob shifts across three distinct phases as the current weakens, making the ...

Researchers have observed changes in ocean color near the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, potentially caused by microplastics, which are impacting marine life and seafood.

A perspective analysis suggests that constrained geochemical timelines, complex viral defenses in early ancestors, and candidate Martian biosignatures challenge independent terrestrial origin-of-life ...

What a fresh lunar crater reveals about incoming asteroids — and how we can nuke them In the spring of 2024, the Lunar ...

Drifting through the polar darkness, a team of scientists is documenting a rapidly changing Arctic. As sea ice retreats and ...