Expedition 405 of the International Ocean Discovery Programme embarked on a mission to the Japan Trench, where scientists drilled into a fault zone involved in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The goal was ...

While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of ...

Expedition 405 drilled into Japan Trench fault, site of 2011 quake, collecting cores and data to learn how massive earthquakes and tsunamis are triggered.

On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku mega-earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami. At ...

A team of geoscientists has identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of Earth's crust in Japan and neighboring regions. The so-called same-dip double subduction ...

In September 1972, a research vessel called the USNS Hayes discovered the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean and named it after ...

A team of geoscientists lead by Guido M. Gianni identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of the Earth's crust ...

Life is amazing. It’s survived everything from asteroid impacts to ice ages to continental drift and simply continued ...

A team of geoscientists lead by Guido M. Gianni identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of the Earth’s crust in Japan and neighboring regions: The so-called ...

Discovery of deep-sea chemosynthesis-based communities suggests more life forms exist in unexplored ocean depths, according to a study by Chinese researchers ...

Beneath the sparkling waves and turquoise shallows of the world’s oceans lie forces that defy imagination. While these waters ...