A breakthrough discovery of oxygen production in darkness could redefine life's origins on Earth and open new frontiers in space exploration.

Nitrospirota is an archaeal phylum that’s particularly common in the terrestrial subsurface. Some species of nitrospirota are ...

Beneath the Earth's surface lies an expansive "ocean," which is three times larger than the Earth's surface oceans. However, ...

Beneath the Earth's surface lies a vast ocean, which is three times larger than all the oceans on the planet. However, it is ...

The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and ...

Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped ...

Grim weather maps have indicated that the UK is set to ... as they welcome the new year with substantial snow showers. Snow depth charts for January 2 indicate that up to 20cm could be blanketing ...

There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic ...

They’ve added to their rotation and bullpen, along with catching depth. Then there’s the biggest move of the offseason, having finally brought in that lineup-altering force with a trade for ...