The newly-discovered ecosystem surrounding a hydrothermal vent could give scientists clues as to how life began on Earth.

There Are Mystery Rings Around 500,000 Barrels on the Seafloor. They Shouldn’t Be There. For decades, many chemical companies, as well as the U.S. military, treated the waters off the coast of ...

A massive hydrothermal field, Kunlun, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean, exceeding the size of the Lost City. This ...

Far below the waves of the western Pacific, researchers have uncovered a hydrothermal system unlike anything seen before.

Gold is present in seawater at unimaginably low levels. Scientists measure concentrations in femtomoles per litre, tiny ...

Mysterious white halos emerging around sunken barrels of chemical waste on the seafloor off California's coast have been ...

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'.

Gold mixes with seawater from rivers, aeolian dust, and hydrothermal vents. It also binds to particles and settles on the ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments are unique ecosystems where geological activity creates extreme physicochemical conditions. In these habitats, chemosynthetic processes underpin primary ...

A deep-sea worm that lives in hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a toxic, arsenic-containing mineral that was used by artists for centuries ...

Comprehensive knowledge of the distribution of active hydrothermal vent fields along midocean ridges is essential to understanding global chemical and heat fluxes and endemic faunal distributions.