Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting this mysterious landscape has complex ecosystems. Hydrothermal vents are ...

At the beginning of 2024, the water level at Nuphar Lake near Norris Geyser Basin was on the rise. By the end of that summer, ...

They were discovered when a deep-diving, remotely operated vehicle dug into sections of the crust where two tectonic plates meet and there are hydrothermal ... sulfur into energy instead ...

The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated and chemical-rich water that nourishes microorganisms. "The warm venting fluids are rich in energy - for example, sulfide - that can ...

Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor where seawater and hot magma from beneath Earth’s crust come together to create a type of underwater hot spring.

Giant worms appear to be breeding beneath the seafloor at hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific, near the Galápagos Islands, new research shows. Scientists previously thought microbes and ...

Barber found that an abundance of water on Earth is most likely key, in some way, to the origin of life — specifically, in either deep sea hydrothermal vents or in tide pools. It's for this ...

Scientists will be drilling a 1.3-mile-deep borehole into an active volcano to tap into the potentially limitless energy from the magma ...

Ralph White/Getty Images But, living organisms such as giant tubeworms, worms and snails were found in hydrothermal vents, which are openings on the seafloor that form where seawater and magma ...

Worms and snails have been found living in cavities under hydrothermal vents more than 2.5 kilometres ... The worms contain specialised bacteria which use the chemical energy contained in the minerals ...