Scientists believe that nearly half a billion years ago, the majestic Mount Everest was under water. It's hard to believe, ...

By Pepper St. Clair From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have shaped ...

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for ...

Far below the surface, in the dim blue of the deep Atlantic, a strange cobalt smear has forced scientists to rethink what ...

Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown but thriving ecosystem. Researchers made ...

New drilling results from the South Atlantic have uncovered ancient lava rubble that stores far more CO2 than expected, ...

China is building an underwater center in Guangzhou to study cold springs and hidden changes on the seafloor from a research ...

The seafloor is rich in valuable metals, but gathering them is disruptive to the environment. An international project has now tested a system called Apollo 2, which can vacuum up metal nodules ...

Yes, Hurricane Melissa affected seismic activity, but it did not cause a crack in the seafloor that will lead to a major ...

When scientists looked around the strange vents at the bottom of the sea, they found a stunning alien landscape — and, almost by accident, found way more life than expected. Known as hydrothermal ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports reports the discovery of a remarkably extensive hydrothermal vent field on the ...

Scientists found rocks deep inside Earth's mantle that generate hydrogen and could reveal clues about deep energy and the ...