Deep-sea vents, commonly referred to as nature’s chemical laboratories, are now discovered to be releasing rare and precious ...

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

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

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

The ocean holds gold, but dreams of instant riches are far-fetched. While gold exists in seawater, its concentration is ...

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 ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America ...

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

Scientists estimate that 20 million tonnes of gold, worth more than $2 quadrillion, is dissolved into our planet’s oceans.

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 ...