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.

For the first time, scientists observed tubeworms and other complex ocean creatures dwelling beneath hydrothermal vents. By Robin George Andrews Off the western shores of Central and South America ...

Deep in the ocean, hydrothermal vents can tower up to 200 feet above the seafloor, belching out scalding water warmed by hot magma from underwater volcanoes. A recent expedition to locate more of ...

Searching along the sunless seafloor where tectonic plates pull apart, regions known as spreading ridges, researchers discovered that heat-spewing hydrothermal vents are at least three to six ...

Hydrothermal vents can be found around the world at the junctions of drifting tectonic plates. But there are many hydrothermal fields still to be discovered. During a 2022 expedition of the MARIA S.

Five new active hydrothermal vents in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean have been spotted on the seafloor deep at 2,550 meters (8366 feet, or 1.6 miles). These vents are locations from which ...

From the ship, the team deployed a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), named SuBastian, to collect samples of hydrothermal vent fluid ... This process strips the fluid of basalts and metals and ...

The crabs led them to a field of hydrothermal vents, or deep-sea hot springs. The vent field was named "Sendero del Cangrejo," or "Trail of the Crabs." Clusters of white crabs on the ocean floor ...

Hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, the so-called "black smokers," are fascinating geological formations. They are home to unique ecosystems, but are also potential suppliers of raw materials for ...

Since their discovery, hydrothermal vents have been relevant to concepts that surround the origin of life. At the simplest level, there are two kinds of hydrothermal vents: the hot (approximately ...

The researchers, led by Monika Bright from the University of Vienna, embarked on a mission to study the ecosystems surrounding hydrothermal vents, according to an Aug. 8 news release. The team set ...