Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

The Atlantic Ocean may “soon” be swallowed up by a vast chain of colliding tectonic plates that has been ominously dubbed the “Ring of Fire,” scientists warn. The tectonic plate underneath Africa has ...

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

Ocean life was devastated by a deadly land-sea “tag team” 100 million years ago, reveals new research. A string of catastrophic environmental events triggered "mass extinctions" of marine species, say ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

James Hein on a boat on Mariana Island. When James Hein (Earth Sciences ’73, Ph.D.) entered the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department as one of its first doctoral students in 1969, he had a ...

Chinese scientists have uncovered a vast and previously unknown hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, revealing massive craters filled with hydrogen and life. As detailed in a recent ...

Several earthquakes with epicenters beneath the ocean surface rattled the Northern California coastline early Monday. The quakes occurred off the shore of Humboldt County and were all located roughly ...