When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Earth’s early history is undergoing a quiet revolution. Long assumed to be dry at its core, new research suggests our planet ...

New evidence indicates that the deepest realm of the mantle flowed with up to 100 times more water than previously believed.

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally ...

The findings, published in the academic journal Science on Friday, reshape human understanding of how water is stored and ...

Taam Ja reveals a 274-meter abyss in Chetumal Bay, the second-deepest blue hole on the planet and a mystery hidden beneath ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...