In terms of sheer area, oceans are top of the list of the most common landforms. Yes, even oceans are landforms, given that they are composed of vast basins riddled with trenches and mountains.

All five oceans are connected with each other ... Image caption, Image of the Earth from a satellite. The ocean floor can be flat or it can have caves and mountains. The weather can be very ...

Discover the connection between volcanic events and the rise of Earth's oxygen levels that enabled complex life to thrive.

A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has found evidence that billions of years ago, the Earth's oceans were green.

It's five times stronger than the Gulf Stream ... Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's climate and pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe. But fresh, cool water ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...

Everything we thought we knew about Earth and its oceans is starting to challenge us. There is a hidden ocean found underneath the Earth and its depth is 700 kilometres, and it is trapped within a ...