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

Beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an ancient underwater city has been quietly thriving for at least 120,000 years—but it may ...

The Lost City Hydrothermal Field is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – and its towering spires that shoot out hot ...

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

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

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 ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a warning about pressure ridges on Lake Minnetonka. The ridges look like long lines of built-up ice and can be up to six feet tall. “With the ...

With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end ...

Located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean, the underwater shield volcano last erupted in 2015, following previous eruptions in 1998 and 2011. The volcano, first detected in the 1970s ...

The team suspects that a combination of the slow shrinking of the moon and changes in its orbit could be responsible for the formation of the ridges. The researchers are hoping for manned missions ...