The ambitious mission won't actually look for life, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.

The idea of Pangaea comes from Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the seven continents were once joined as a supercontinent.

NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps ... at sea level. In contrast, the newer method takes elevation on Earth into consideration. The moon’s topography ...

bottom-dwelling fish that use leg-like appendages to navigate the ocean floor. The research, published in two papers in Current Biology, could have far-reaching implications for understanding trait ...

But sea robins in the family Triglidae are some of the most bizarre in the ocean, as illuminated by two new studies giving surprising insight into their biology. With a catfish-shaped body and ...

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It’s the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem and also the subject of a new giant floor map that relies heavily on Indigenous knowledge. The Biinaagami Giant Floor Map, which spans the Great Lakes-St.

uses its limbs both to stroll the ocean bottom and to taste the sea floor for buried prey. Sea robins have bulging eyes like a frog’s, fins that look similar to a bird’s wings and six legs ...

When seawater seeps way down into the Earth through cracks in the ocean floor, it gets heated by magma, rises back up to the surface, and is released back into the ocean through fissures called ...

(Mark Schiefelbein,/AP) TAIPEI, Taiwan — China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday ... into the South Pacific. A map published in Chinese ...

The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish, or Harriotta avia, was found in the Chatham Rise, an area of ocean floor off the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, by researchers from New ...