The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in ...

Water may have been shaping Earth’s deep interior far earlier than many geologists thought. In rocks more than 3 billion ...

Most of our planet's crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see. Across 65,000 kilometers (40,400 miles) of ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

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Most years, skywatchers have to wait patiently for different celestial events to arrive one at a time. An eclipse might ...

On Monday morning, the Tour de France’s media-wranglers sent us all a text announcing something genuinely shocking for such a ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

Nicholas Meyer and producer David W. Zucker discuss everything from The Day After' to Blade Runner 2099 at the Italian Global ...