What began as a 500-foot descent turned into something far stranger. Deep below the waterfall, explorers found a perfect blue ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

Capturing the first image of a black hole required linking telescopes across the entire planet to act as one giant lens. The result revealed a glowing ring of warped light surrounding a dark shadow — ...

Scientists discovered 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, offering the oldest direct record of Earth’s ancient atmosphere ...

The Great Blue Hole is the largest sea hole in the world and is in the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll near the Belize City mainland, and is part of the Great Barrier Reef Reserve System. It ...

A team of researchers, including those from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has discovered the oldest directly ...

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg.

We know the Earth is old, but getting direct evidence of the deep past is hard, that's why the latest discovery out of Antarctica is big news.

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...