Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ...

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth—a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

Postcard views often mask deep-seated security challenges. From shifting cartel dynamics in Mexico to urban crime in Brazil, ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling the area it hopes to mine.

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...