Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

An underwater volcano located about 300 miles off Oregon’s coast is showing alarming signs that it’s about to erupt. Axial Seamount, which sits nearly a mile below the ocean’s surface, last blew its ...

Axial is significant because it sits atop the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the region where the enormous Pacific and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates pull apart, forming the ocean crust. "Over two-thirds of ...

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

Hydrothermal vents are hot springs generated by underwater volcanoes ... typically confined to smaller regions of active venting along mid-ocean ridges. The relatively low temperatures of the vents, ...

The chemical composition of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent fluids is thought to reflect conditions within a deep-seated reaction zone. Although temperature and pressure conditions within this ...

“Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface was formed by volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges,” said Maya Tolstoy ... By comparison, life on the hydrothermal vents will have a different ...

Mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems significantly impact marine chemistry ... in the hydrothermal influenced water and sediment samples near Longqi and Tiancheng vents in the southwestern Indian ...

That combination of features, located right on top of a mid-ocean ridge, is not very common ... The same can’t be said for plants and animals living on the Axial Seamount’s hydrothermal vents. In the ...

“Over two-thirds of the Earth’s surface was formed by volcanic eruptions at these mid-ocean ridges,” Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist and dean of the University of Washington’s College ...