Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...

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 across Florida.

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

Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as ...

The King's Trough complex, about 1,000 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) off the coast of Portugal, is known as the 'Grand ...

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 in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...

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 ...