The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

The original ocean hypothesis came from how Titan physically deforms as it orbits Saturn. As the moon follows an elliptical ...

New research suggests Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth's polar seas instead of a buried ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest ocean trench in the world, located in the Pacific Ocean. Learn about its depth, location, ...

Japan lifted a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Lt. Gov. Josh Tenorio isn't mincing words about the federal government's handling of a proposed deep-sea mining project near ...

A 13-year-old took the microphone Thursday evening and asked a question that cut through the technical jargon surrounding ...