The newborn had been abandoned by her family and found in a rubbish bin, her face bloodied by an animal scavenging for food.

Researchers at the French National Center of Scientific Research have become the first to ...

They were absolutely floored. For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the birth of a seafloor in real time, way ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in ...

Investigators say evidence indicates the girl had been dead for at least a month before a 911 call reported her missing on ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led ...

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...

Minerals are typically formed when molten rock, or magma, cools, or by separating out of mineral-rich water, such as that in ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...