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

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 ...

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

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.

But did you know that the number of viruses in the ocean outnumbers the amount of stars in the Milky Way? Or how about the ...

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

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

"The spontaneous formation of ion channels discovered in deep sea hydrothermal vents has direct implications for the origin of life on Earth and beyond," says biochemist Ryuhei Nakamura ...

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

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A deep-diving robot that chiseled ... The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated and chemical-rich water that nourishes microorganisms.

Groundbreaking new research offers insight into how life might exist in other extreme environments, such as on Mars or icy ...