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.

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

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

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

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

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

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

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

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.