Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life can survive.

By Elizabeth Devitt They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a small group of scientific specialists searching the world ...

A bold claim that the deep ocean floor produces oxygen without any sunlight has drawn sharp scientific pushback, with critics arguing the proposed mechanism violates fundamental laws of thermodynamics ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to ...

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and other institutions around the world arrived in Rio de Janeiro yesterday after spending two months at sea on the research ship JOIDES ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can pack more than 25 times the global warming punch of carbon dioxide, and atmospheric methane emissions have been growing significantly since 2007. So it’s ...