In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Five vast bodies of water cover 71% of our planet’s surface—the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic Oceans. In ...

The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is ...

A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

That strange black triangle on Google Maps isn’t a hole - it’s Vostok Island, a remote Pacific spot with deadly trees and a ...

If ocean policy is the map, finance is the current that carries the blue economy forward. Welcome back to the Blue Horizons series. In Part 1, we explored policies and ESG alignment. Now it’s time to ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

California has a secret, and it’s hiding in plain sight along the central coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains dramatically plunge into the Pacific Ocean. Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in Monterey ...

The African continent is gradually splitting apart. Although a new ocean is expected to form as a result, it won't be for millions of years.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall along Jamaica's southwestern coast Tuesday as an extremely powerful Category 5 storm.

Melissa is forecast to become the first Category 5 landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Dorian roared into the Bahamas in 2019. There have been 32 Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic since the use ...