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

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

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

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

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.

The big question will be whether or not scientists can demonstrate that greigite and vivianite need biological life to form.

At first glance, the dwarf planet Ceres hardly inspires dreams of alien life. Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's outer shell meet has unearthed a previously unknown ...

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 ...

At least some of the barrels contain caustic alkaline waste, which has made the surrounding ecosystems inhospitable to most ...