China has initiated a high-stakes mission, employing the Meng Xiang vessel to drill into the Earth's crust, aiming to reach ...

The 17th century diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys is best known for writing the longest description of flatulence in the English language. But his real fame comes from the fact that he ...

China and South Korea established the Provisional Measures Zone in the Yellow Sea, where their 230-mile-wide exclusive ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

For the longest time, human scientific exploration has been confined to the Earth’s outermost solid layer: the crust. This crust has an average thickness of about 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), though it ...