Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters.

This video explores what Earth could look like 250 million years in the future based on plate tectonics and world atlas reconstructions. Continents drift across the world map, with Africa colliding ...

All of Earth's deepest ocean trenches are located in the Pacific Ocean, a result of intense tectonic plate subduction. These ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...