An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The fabled city of Atlantis, long dismissed as mere myth, may finally have been discovered—just two miles off the coast of ...

Sahar Emami, an anchor for Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, went viral for being on air as a bomb struck the building where she was broadcasting, then returning to the air after the strike. Then an X ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Tectonic pulses beneath Africa are splitting the continent apart to produce a new ocean, according to University of ...