The Pacific Ocean isn’t just the largest ocean on Earth — it’s a vast underwater graveyard and mystery zone that has swallowed centuries of our human history.

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

A majority of Islamorada now has a new and larger water main in the ground. From Tea Table Relief at MM 79.5, contractors for ...

This eerie, bulging-eyed fish lived beneath Antarctic ice for centuries - and scientists only just realized it's a new species.

The vast ocean hides a world that continues to amaze and sometimes startle us. Divers and fishermen have shared incredible footage of marine animals that look like they belong in another dimension.

Sixty-eight thousand years ago, in the humid dark of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Muna, a human being pressed their hand against the cold wall. They took a mouthful of red pigment and ...

February opens the door to museum experiences many families don’t realize they can access for free. Across Northern California, major museums quietly welcome visitors through the Museums for All ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...