Two earthquakes hit the area between Fiji and New Zealand on April 14 morning. The first quake measured 6.5, and the second ...

For most of the human history, the oceans represented something larger than any power could control. It was unfathomable and beyond conquest—wild, uncontained, and governed by forces of nature rather ...

said the vessel paused for a third time early on Tuesday around 550 nautical miles from Perth as it passed over the Indian Ocean marine trench, which has a maximum depth of 7000m. The Chinese ship ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

In the Pacific Ocean there is a very deep bit called The Mariana Trench. It's so deep that the ... Pupils could work to label a world map, showing the locations of the five oceans and could ...

Last summer, three Chinese research vessels were tracked operating in the Indian Ocean for suspected survey ... formerly Twitter. A Newsweek map shows the Chinese ship was outside the Australian ...

The Tan Suo Yi Hao can map the ocean floor, which would be critical ... with China boasting of its ability to survey the Mariana Trench. The mapping conducted by the Tan Suo Yi Hao in Australia ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

A revised timeline of bacterial evolution revealed that some ancient aerobic bacteria existed before oxygen became common in ...

The Julian earthquake is worth closer examination not for its size or damage (there was very little), but for a demonstration ...