Florida State University research published in Science Advances demonstrates a new framework for predicting the motion of ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

Scientists thought they understood Earth, but these discoveries proved otherwise. Hidden oceans, lost continents, boiling ...

Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...

Earth's current largest ocean, the Pacific, blankets more than 30% of the planet's surface, stretching 12,000 miles (19,000 kilometers) at its widest point, between Colombia and the Malay Peninsula, ...

Ocean microbes control Earth's carbon cycle. Scientists found a simpler way to understand how these tiny organisms shape our ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...

For centuries, maps of Earth showed seven continents. That number has quietly been under challenge since 2017, and the case ...

The ocean works quietly every day to protect life on Earth. It absorbs heat from the atmosphere, stores massive amounts of carbon dioxide and produces much of the oxygen humans breathe.

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

Typhoon Maria scrambled bacterial communities at every ocean depth, and researchers with rare timing captured the entire ...