In 2007, something strange happened over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. According to satellites orbiting Earth, our planet's gravity field developed a continent-scale anomaly before subsiding to its ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would end up in China. In fact, if I had been able to dig straight through the ...

Team of geomicrobiologists walking to a sampling site at the end of an inactive tunnel in a South African gold mine. At this site almost 3 km deep beneath the surface, the researchers can access one ...

From the deep ocean floor to vast underground caverns beneath our feet, these places challenge our understanding of the world.

We’ve heard of underground parties, but this is ridiculous. A new study by an international team of researchers has uncovered troves of microbes thriving in the hostile subsurface of the earth, far ...

The world's unrelenting need for energy, as well as increasingly warm temperatures, is making the need for clean sources of ...

It’s one of the only places on Earth where three giant cracks, or rifts, in the Earth’s surface meet. These rifts stretch across Ethiopia and beyond, and over time, they are splitting the land apart.

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...