New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

This isn’t the first time scientists have found thriving ecosystems in seemingly inhospitable parts of the ocean. For decades, marine biologists have studied hydrothermal vents—essentially ...

A nine-year-old boy who got trapped between rocks at a New South Wales beach on Sunday has become the seventh person to drown ...

Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming ... fragments of Pangea. This ocean is entirely gone today, although the sedimentary rocks that settled on its ocean ...