Perched along California’s Highway 1, where the Santa Lucia Mountains make a dramatic plunge into the Pacific Ocean, exists a viewpoint so spectacular it feels like nature is showing off.

When leaving an atoll of the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, Alson Kelen prefers to sail after sunset. It’s like navigating ...

There's a strange slice of Planet Earth deep below the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island which may explain the East Pacific Rise, the world's fastest spreading ocean ridge, according to scientists.

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Ahead of COP30, more than 160 scientists released a report warning global warming is pushing humanity into a “danger zone” ...

About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

A billion-dollar international mission to extend humanity’s most precise ocean measurements is about to ride a column of fire ...

NASA's Sentinel 6B lifts off from rain-soaked California to deliver the most precise data yet on rising seas, sparking debate ...

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...