At least three explanations are under consideration, each of which could have dramatically reshaped planetary conditions for ...

Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology (TUD Dresden) and the Australian National ...

Learn how time scales for objects thousands versus millions of years old could be better synchronized.

Scientists have long sought reliable methods to date ancient geological events, but a surprising find in deep-sea samples may ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s history Joel Sams The waters around two remote atolls in the central ...

A Boston University led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the longest of the world's ocean currents. Also known as the "channel ...

These have strong, warm, polewards flows concentrated in the western edges of each ocean. For example: Gulf Stream in the north-west Atlantic Kuroshio Current in the north-west Pacific Agulhas ...