Rising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but a new process in the Arctic could save the day, scientists say.

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process.

The ocean serves as Earth's largest dynamic carbon sink, absorbing 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually through ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Earth’s biodiversity could be driven by a deep, tectonically controlled cycle that spans millions of years. The Tectonic ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

The new galaxy, because of how far away it is, looks to observers exactly as it did when it was first created 3 billion years ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western Australia. These zircons were formed as early as 4.4 billion years ago, and ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...