Researchers working in the Arctic have uncovered an environmental anomaly deep below the ocean's surface at the Knipovich ...

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

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 ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans. But what does that really mean?

Before the eruption, scientists saw a wide variety of ocean life around the Tica hydrothermal vent. Andrew Wozniak ... volcanic eruption along a mid-ocean ridge. The team, exploring underwater ...

India’s Deep Ocean Mission achieves major success with first-ever image of active hydrothermal vent at 4,500 metres - Here’s all you need to know (Photo: National Institute of Ocean Technology ...

Hydrothermal vents are like hot springs on the ocean floor. They form along mid-ocean ridges where tectonic plates move apart. The magma from the Earth's mantle rises to fill the gap and cools to ...

Hydrothermal vents are like hot springs on the ocean floor. They form along mid-ocean ridges where tectonic plates move apart. The magma from the Earth's mantle rises to fill the gap and cools to form ...

The study has important implications for understanding the origin of these vents and ... deep-sea hydrothermal plumes have been detected along ultra-slow spreading mid-ocean ridges [MORs] to ...

New seafloor forms in places where magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge and cools to form volcanic rock. The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated ...