For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Scientists now believe vast water reserves are hidden nearly 400 miles beneath Earth's surface, locked within rock. Lab experiments, earthquake data, and rare deep-formed diamonds suggest this 'wet' ...

Explore how Earth would appear without life. Studies from Universe Today and Cornell University reveal atmospheric signals, surface conditions, and implications for exoplanet observations.

In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast new “8th continent.” Even closer to home, researchers have uncovered a ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The reason Earth's oceans may have looked different in the ancient past is to do with their ...

A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between ...

A research team has produced the first direct experimental evidence that Earth’s iron core traps hydrogen inside nanoscale ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...

Climate change is rapidly freshening one of Earth’s saltiest ocean regions in the Southern Indian Ocean, potentially disrupting circulation.