Scientists have long known that volcanoes shaped the near side of the Moon, visible from Earth. However, very little was ...

A colossal sea organism, towering over 100 feet, has fascinated marine experts after being accidentally stumbled across in Pacific waters near Malaulalo, in the Solomon Islands. But this isn't a ...

The lava eventually cooled into a giant swath of basalt that lines most ... meaning the molten rock essentially sat there as an ocean of magma and took upwards of a thousand years to solidify.

Scientists have long known that there are LLVPs — one below the Pacific Ocean and the other below Africa. In these regions, seismic waves from earthquakes travel 1% to 3% more slowly than they ...

"Most exciting to me was the chance to look beneath the surface at a place we think there could have been an ocean and to see what ... They don't look like lava flows. That's when we started ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption that likely scattered the sharks that normally dwell there.

A recent discovery of giant ocean worms thriving in hidden underwater ... By carefully removing pieces of lava rock, the research team uncovered pockets of water housing not only tubeworms but ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered Earth’s climate.