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 ...

The birthplace of the bicycle, steam engine and jet engine, the UK has a long history of innovation. Here’s how key ...

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

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

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

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

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

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ...

Scientists discovered "dark oxygen" produced by deep-sea polymetallic nodules deep below sea level, redefining our ...

What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back hundreds of ...

They found animal and marine life as deep as nearly 4,300 feet. The species in the newly discovered ecosystem include ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...