The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...

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

The recent paper's case for green oceans in the Archaean eon starts with an observation: waters around the Japanese volcanic ...

The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among ...

A distinctive blue and green image of Earth reveals our planet's most remarkable features. At 4.54 billion years old, our home world is a venerable object. But it was only with the arrival of the ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other ... mountain ranges such as the Himalaya are pushed toward the skies. The atmosphere not only nourishes life on Earth, but it also protects ...