A research team led by Prof. Wang Jianjun from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

The Sentinel-6B satellite arrives in California for launch, ready to measure sea level with unprecedented climate accuracy.

A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

The study, published recently in Nature Sustainability, offers a new way to pinpoint vulnerable farming regions and guide ...

Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at marine fish species living in the world's oceans by studying traces of genetic material in seawater. One of the most surprising results was discovering ...

An autonomous ocean robot, launched from Woods Hole, is attempting to complete a first-ever trip around the world.

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 ...