Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

A new study led by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Roxanne Beltran to be published as the February 14 cover story for Science ...

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In fiction, The Twilight Zone is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, between the ...

Exploration in a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ... that settle on the ocean floor, packed with metals such as manganese and iron. These nodules form slowly over millions of years as ...

The Earth's mantle, the layer between the crust and the core ... Thanks to this high-resolution modeling, researchers identified abnormal zones beneath the western Pacific Ocean, far from any known ...