On a wave-battered rock in the northern Pacific Ocean, a fish called the sculpin grips the surface firmly to maintain ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...