At the bottom of the world’s oceans, where the seafloor is pulled apart at one of the slowest rates on...

A 360-million-year-old fossil plant from China has revealed the earliest known example of seed-bearing leaves crowded with ovules, providing an...

In the High Arctic, winter is often portrayed as a season when the ocean’s biological machinery shuts down beneath darkness,...

Earth’s deepest boundary may be hiding a chemical fingerprint left over from the planet’s earliest history. A new study by...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment points to a powerful connection between the tropical Pacific and the...

A new study is bringing genomic tools into one of Earth’s most inaccessible habitats: the deep biosphere, where microorganisms live...

Stanford researchers have discovered that instruments built to detect earthquakes can also “listen” to hurricanes, revealing how turbulent winds and...

The Arctic Ocean may remain chemically altered long after humanity succeeds in removing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the...

Earthquake science has long faced a difficult credibility test: forecasts must be made before earthquakes occur, then judged against observations...

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that where people live—and how race and economic disadvantage are concentrated across...