Oceanographer Moronke Harris collects samples of bacteria from deepsea vents that could be key to developing new antiviral ...

Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor where seawater and hot magma from beneath Earth’s crust come together to create a type of underwater hot spring.

Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting this mysterious landscape has complex ecosystems. Hydrothermal vents are ...

Sea mining, or deep-sea mining, has emerged as a hot topic in the global conversation around resource extraction. With the ...

At the beginning of 2024, the water level at Nuphar Lake near Norris Geyser Basin was on the rise. By the end of that summer, ...

Hydrothermal vents are found along deep sea cracks in the Earth’s crust ... The length of these red and white worms meant that some could stretch their plume out into the water to feed while keeping ...

Another highlight of the expedition from a marine chemistry standpoint was the plume produced by a hydrothermal vent in a deep region of the Gakkel Ridge, where the AWI had never discovered any ...

Plumes of water vapor erupt from the surface. Tendrils of algae lurk in the bright white glaciers. Deep below the surface, microorganisms and other creatures cluster near hydrothermal vents ...

These plumes contain traces of silica and molecular ... Suggesting that, in the depths of Enceladus's ocean, there may be hydrothermal vents, towering structures created by water flowing into ...

Researchers have long studied animal communities near such hydrothermal vents. Many thought only microbes and viruses could survive underneath. To their surprise, an underwater robot last summer ...