A young Microsoft engineer has proposed a radical idea to combat climate change — detonating an 81-gigatonne nuclear bomb beneath the ocean floor to pulverise basalt and sequester carbon dioxide.

Using a nuclear explosion yield of 81 gigatons, scientists can sequester 30 years' worth of carbon dioxide emissions, the study claimed.

Earth harbors incredible secrets, from remnants of a planet that formed the Moon residing deep within, to ancient auroras ...

By Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story CAPE COD, Massachusetts (WBZ) — After 17 years underground, cicadas are ...

Calculations suggest the missing water is enough to cover the planet in an ocean at least 700 metres ... formed fractures that channelled water underground. Deep beneath the surface, warmer ...

Earth's moon is almost ten times larger. An underground ocean would make up about half of Mimas' volume, but it would only be equivalent to 1.2% to 1.4% of the liquid water oceans present on Earth.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from ...

This underground "ocean" is stored in a mineral called ringwoodite, within the Earth's mantle. Scientists believe it could hold more water than all the surface oceans combined! What's Next For NBA ...

Researchers say the unlikely discovery could help them better understand buried oceans on frozen moons — and maybe life beyond Earth. In this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its ...