The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

A recent breakthrough in marine biology has unveiled a plethora of new species residing in the mysterious depths of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. These discoveries, made possible through advanced ...

How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of water on ...

Scientists found that formic and acetic acids can be formed in hydrothermal vents through protometabolic processes.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers believe the earliest forms of life on Earth began in hydrothermal vents—cracks in the sea floor that release hot, mineral-rich water. A ...

On p. [i]: Campos hidrotermais dos Açores. Hydrothermal vent fields of the Azores. PLANNING THE MANAGEMENT OF DEEPSEA HYDROTHERMAL VENT FIELDS MPA IN THE AZORES TRIPLE JUNCTION : PROCEEDINGS OF THE ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may have occurred on Earth about four billion years ago, producing the first ...

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea 'metropolis'. The tortuous system of deep craters and dolomite walls blows the Atlantic Ocean's ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for monitoring and predicting tectonic activity deep beneath the seafloor at ...

Measuring the temperature on the seafloor: In the newly discovered hydrothermal field, hot liquid and cold gas bubble up from the sediment just a few centimetres apart. Off the coast of Papua New ...

Volcano-tectonic variability along segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Azores platform and Hayes fracture zone / E. Gràcia, L.M. Parson, and D. Bideau -- Seismic inversion study of the axial ...