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 ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ocean. Consequently, this part of East Africa will evolve into its own ...

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 ...

They found coral gardens, hydrothermal vents and many suspected new species while exploring around the island chain, including in the deepest trench in the Southern Ocean. But there were many ...

They found coral gardens, hydrothermal vents and many suspected new species while exploring around the island chain, including in the deepest trench in the Southern Ocean. The same international team, ...

Melting ice sped up movements between the continental plates and significantly increased the size of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge. "As ice volume was greatly reduced, it caused a huge motion in ...

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 ...

This recent expedition forms part of the Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census program, the largest initiative working to expedite the discovery of ocean life. During the voyage, the team weathered ...

The volcano, Axial Seamount, lies about a mile below the ocean's surface ... that spout from the vents, creating plumes of black smoke. These are known as hydrothermal vents, which are like ...

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 ...