In 2025, scientists made groundbreaking discoveries about Earth's deep past and inner workings, including evidence of gold leaking from its core.

From Earth’s oldest rocks to glowing swamp lights and hidden ocean life, scientists in 2025 uncovered clues beneath our feet ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

This immense pressure, along with ultra-low temperatures and mysterious conditions of the deep sea, make exploring these ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

More than 3,600 meters beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists have stumbled onto a hidden world that should not, by ...

A deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun in the Indian Ocean, reviving efforts to solve one of aviation’s ...

From a mega-nest of turtles and orcas using tools, to deep-sea sharks and 40,000-year-old mammoths, 2025 delivered some of ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

After spotting the deepest hydrate seep ever, scientists were shocked to discover a deep-sea ecosystem thriving on the Arctic ...

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Part of the ocean known as the upper twilight zone is one of the least-explored ecosystems on Earth because it’s so expensive ...