But did you know that the number of viruses in the ocean outnumbers the amount of stars in the Milky Way? Or how about the ...

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it.

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

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ...

"The spontaneous formation of ion channels discovered in deep sea hydrothermal vents has direct implications for the origin of life on Earth and beyond," says biochemist Ryuhei Nakamura ...

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

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A deep-diving robot that chiseled ... The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated and chemical-rich water that nourishes microorganisms.

It was a radical notion which required a radical test: breaking open the crust beneath a hydrothermal vent. Working with a team of marine biologists and deep-sea technical experts, Drs Gollner and ...

Giant tubeworms are seen in a shallow subsurface cavity below deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean. ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute The discovery was "spectacular," Bright said ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands. Giant worms ...

WASHINGTON : A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific ... at a mid-ocean ridge and cools to form volcanic ...