The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it.Now, if you’re a geologist, or got a keen interest in how the Earth is put together, then this probably ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

The Zanclean megaflood was a cataclysmic event that rushed water from the Atlantic Ocean into the Strait of Gibraltar, ...

The ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, yet more than 80% remains unexplored. Here we virtually plunge into the most mysterious parts of our watery world.

Within the Tethyan realm, which was ringed by the massive supercontinent, oceanic plates formed and slipped beneath others along mostly east-west ridges and trenches. This steady subduction shaped ...

The discovery of both trenches and mid-ocean ridges paved the way for geologists to accept plate tectonics by providing an explanation for how the Earth's crust is both created through seafloor ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans.

Oceans present wide, open spaces that stretch to the abyssal plains, the trenches, and the mid-ocean ridges. Seas are comparatively shallower, with average depths ranging from several hundred to ...

This summer she spent three weeks off the coast of Chile as the co-principal on a research expedition studying the ocean floor near the Atacama Trench, at depths of more than 9,300 feet.