If you ever looked at a plane's flight path over the Pacific Ocean, you might think it is odd, but it has nothing to do with ...

A new study suggests Earth's oceans may have been green during the Archean eon, around 3.8 to 1.8 billion years ago. The ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Researchers using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) have mapped the geology of the Mona Rift and made some astonishing ...

A wealthy bitcoin entrepreneur and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday, ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...