Researchers discovered the body of water—now the largest known underground thermal lake in the world—while investigating a ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

What creatures lurk in the pitch-black oceans of Challenger Deep? The deepest part of the Earth’s oceans is a portion of the ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

Since 1990, arid regions have expanded by an area a third larger than India and now cover 40 per cent of the Earth's land excluding ... patterns mean that some places will experience very little ...

An innovative metro station can be found approximately 380 feet (116 metres) below the ground–almost equal to about 40 floors—and is the “world’s deepest.” Hongyancun Station in ...