Researchers exploring the seafloor south of the Cayman Islands have discovered the world's deepest-known hydrothermal vents, an underwater hotspot teeming with bizarre shrimp with light receptors on ...

Newly discovered hydrothermal vents at a depth of 8366 feet below the ocean surface are emitting fluids exceeding 300°C. Sentry and Alvin collaborated on the discovery, greatly expediting the research ...

“It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible lights fell upon more than two million golden eggs strewn across the ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

China's deep-sea manned submersible Jiaolong took 300 milliliters of hydrothermal fluid in two active hydrothermal vents and other scientific samples at the seabed of southwestern Indian Ocean on ...

Black smoke appears to rise from chimney-like formations of the hottest and deepest known hydrothermal vents on Earth. Over the summer, Anna Michel was able to see them for herself — a few miles ...

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 ...

A new hydrothermal vent field, which scientists have dubbed “The Lost City,” was discovered December 5th on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean. The unexpected discovery occurred at 30 degrees ...

A 2,000-foot-long hydrothermal field teeming with life and giant chimneys spouting boiling water has been discovered next to an underwater volcano off the coast of Ecuador. When you purchase through ...