Ocean microbes can use urea when ammonium is scarce. This helps them survive in poor waters and reshapes our view of the nitrogen cycle.

We know about fossils and rocks, ice cores and seabeds... but it turns out the Earth has been storing data - on climate, ...

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

Scientists have detected hundreds of earthquakes originating from Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier', sparking fears of collapse ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Far below the familiar blue of the oceans, scientists are uncovering evidence of a vast hidden reservoir of water locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle. Rather than a single underground sea, this ...

Recently, a team of researchers led by Prof. DU Zhixue from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of ...

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

The U.S. Senate has passed legislation reauthorizing marine debris cleanup programs originally passed in the 2020 Save Our ...

The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 5,000 nautical miles across, protects the West Coast of the United States against ...