Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

Hydrothermal vents are cracks in the ocean floor that release hot ... were filled with giant tubeworms—both larvae and adults—carnivorous bristle worms, sediment-eating snails and more. “Animals are ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...

The beds trap sediment and stabilise the ocean floor, as well as carrying out nutrient recycling which in turn improves ...

Research sheds new light on the spread of microplastics, revealing a surprising "hitchhiking" mechanism that could impact ...

Events such as Bed 5 don’t happen frequently – they are likely to happen once in a 50,000-year interval. They do not happen ...

With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.” Proposed mining operations would pump sediment up from the ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...

Ocean explorers spotted what looked like a "yellow brick road" to Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean in 2022. Here's what we know ...

The oceans play a big role in preventing the Earth from getting even hotter due to climate change. That's thanks to the ocean ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...