PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada.

G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada. The Nevada survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but years later after its decommissioning, it ...

Even though it's impossible, red oxygen was found at the sea's bottom. Is there a new source of oxygen in the deep sea? No ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.