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At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth.

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the ...

Well, it just so happens that there is a geological cousin of Dorothy’s fabled path to Oz, but this one exists more than ...

University of Maryland geologists discover a mysterious subduction zone deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, reshaping our understanding of Earth’s interior. University of Maryland scientists uncovered ...

Earth’s deep-sea hydrothermal vents provide a model for understanding how life could exist on Europa. Holden’s team is studying how vent microbes generate energy using hydrogenases to predict what ...

Japan will conduct test mining of rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres ...

IMAGE: This artistic view of the Earth’s interior shows hydrocarbons forming in the upper mantle and transported through deep faults to shallower depths in the Earth’s crust. The inset shows a… Click ...