While he may be known for his movies, James Cameron has also contributed to the discovery of 68 deep-sea species ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to the creation of a planet’s magnetic fields, which protect the entire planet ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered a major share of Earth’s water. A new study argues that the Moon’s surface ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

NASA launched its Cassini-Huygens mission to collect data and take pictures of Saturn, its rings, and its moons Oct. 15, 1997. In 2025, eight years after the end of the Cassini mission, a study led by ...

In 1997, underwater sensors detected an incredibly powerful sound echoing across thousands of kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. Nicknamed the Bloop, it defied easy explanation. Its profile suggested ...