Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

More than 71% of Earth is covered by oceans, but about 95% of them remain unexplored. Only about 20% of the seafloor has been ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch left a rare high altitude noctilucent cloud glowing before sunrise, sparking awe and confusion ...

A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...

A massive canyon hidden beneath the Atlantic Ocean has long baffled geologists. Scientists now believe they may finally understand what helped create it, and this findings help clarify how one of the ...

Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced ...

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced ...

Jessica Irving has received funding from the National Science Foundation to work with MERMAID. She is a member of the Earthscope Oceans Science Committee and was involved in the research study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If true, it could negate the need for some theories about the origins of water on Earth and, by extension, explain how Earth had ...