At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where sunlight never reaches and pressure would crush most life, scientists have ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

When exposed to UV light, the sediment in this piece of volcanic rock phosphoresces, glowing green for several seconds. This brief “glow in the dark” effect reveals the sediment is made out of calcite ...

An ancient piece of volcanic rock plucked from the central Pacific Ocean did something unexpected when a scientist hit it with ultraviolet light in a lab: It started glowing green. The discovery was ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a strange increase in the radioactive isotope ...

The S2 mega meteorite unleashed an ancient apocalypse on Earth unlike anything we could imagine, but did it also help life ...

The Pacific Ocean along the equator is where a phenomenon called La Niña develops. La Niña is the “cool sister” to El Niño.