The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ...

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

deep. All the species were previously known to have lived near such vents, but never underground. "We discovered vent animal ...

Sea mining, or deep-sea mining, has emerged as a hot topic in the global conversation around resource extraction. With the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deep-diving robot that chiseled into ... The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated and chemical-rich water that nourishes microorganisms.

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where ... New seafloor forms in places where magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge and cools to form ...

It was a radical notion which required a radical test: breaking open the crust beneath a hydrothermal vent. Working with a team of marine biologists and deep-sea technical experts, Drs Gollner and ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it.

Oceanographer Moronke Harris collects samples of bacteria from deepsea vents that could be key to developing new antiviral ...