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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...