Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen.

One of the high-temperature hydrothermal vent fields found in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The structures are biodiversity hot spots teeming with ocean life that has adapted to temperatures of over 700 ...

These hydrothermal vents are like underwater volcanoes, but instead of destroying, they spark entire ecosystems. It’s a place where fire seemingly meets water, and the impossible becomes reality.

The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ...

Hydrothermal vents on seafloors of ‘ocean worlds’ could support life, new study says UC Santa Cruz team led research using computer simulations based on Earth’s seafloor ecosystems ...

Hydrothermal vents have been identified as a previously undiscovered source of dissolved black carbon in the oceans, furthering the understanding of the role of oceans as a carbon sink. The ocean ...

A new study by researchers from University of Washington (UW), Old Dominion University (ODU), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the University of Southern California and Liverpool ...

The hydrothermal vent fluids from the Gorda Ridge spreading center in the northeast Pacific Ocean create a biological hub of activity in the deep sea. There, in the dark ocean, a unique food web ...

Hydrothermal vent ecosystem life includes tube worms, fish, bivalves and crustaceans (Image credit: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) "These finely detailed maps created with state-of-the-art ...

We’ve all seen the surreal footage in nature documentaries showing hydrothermal vents on the frigid ocean floor—bellowing black plumes of super-hot water—and the life forms that cling to them. Now, a ...

An international team of researchers discovered the hydrothermal vent site, called Aurora, in the Arctic in 2014 and revisited it in 2019. Locked roughly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) under permanent ...