Common assumptions about the effects of the end of the last ice age may be wrong, which could have important implications for the future.

Our new study may offer an answer. Using seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission, we uncovered evidence that the seismic ...

Earth Day is celebrating its 55th anniversary this year. The environmental event is marked by an estimated one billion people across more than 190 countries, according to the Earth Day ...

The detection of energy signals from strong winter storms in the North Atlantic Ocean that travel through Earth's core could ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

A long period of drought in North America has been recognized by scientists for decades. A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's orbit.

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The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making ...

In a study published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores ... the mission didn’t uncover ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists ... pristine mantle that lies beyond the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, boundary. If you want to understand ...