New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Lava from Kilauea volcano pours out of tubes into the Pacific ... percent of Hawaii’s lava tubes have been mapped. “The deep sea, outer space, and caves: Those are the only frontiers left ...

Deep beneath the icy waters of the Barents Sea, scientists have uncovered an extraordinary geological phenomenon—a 7,000-year-old mud volcano teeming with marine life. Named the Borealis Mud ...

Mud volcanoes, as their name suggests ... an important role in oil and gas extraction activities and the emerging deep-sea mining industry,” she added. Banner image of the underwater Borealis ...

These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle ...

PIPA conserves one of the world's largest intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems, together with 14 known underwater sea mounts (presumed to be extinct volcanoes) and other deep-sea habitats. The ...