Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge tectonic theories.

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

The deep sea is integral in ocean cycling processes that carry nutrients and oxygen all over our planet. This underexplored realm is the basis of food chains that sustain billions of people and helps ...

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

A mega-drought 1,000 years ago drove Polynesians to explore the Pacific and change their historical destiny forever.

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it. Charting the unknown The thought of unmapped regions of the globe can send ...

WTOP’s Matt Kaufax takes an even deeper dive into the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s “Ocean Library” through DNA collection.

Ancient rocks once beneath the ocean hold clues of severe conditions unimaginable on today's planet. Artwork showing the Earth during the Cryogenian period. This geologic period lasted from 850 to 635 ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of the carbon dioxide that oceans pull from the atmosphere, new research ...