Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms ...

This week, fizzy ocean water and the alkaline fluid that bubbles up from deep ocean vents are coursing through a structure at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. that is reminiscent ...

Even if future studies show that Europa’s ocean is lifeless today, Byrne sees value in the exploration. “I’m not upset if we don’t find life on this particular moon,” he said. “I’m confident that ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

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The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

Many creatures make their homes above ocean vents, but life underneath the surface was just discovered. Screengrab from Schmidt Ocean Institute YouTube video Deep under the sea, the molten core of the ...

India recently launched a rocket to the moon. Russia gave it a shot and wished they had not. Exploration rovers have crept across the surface of Mars, and Elon Musk is plotting how to get some of us ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean, which people had long imagined to be dark, cold, and lifeless, was a strange environment teeming with life. Marine geologist ...

New research into the effects of ocean acidification suggests that, while marine organisms may be able to cope with the effects of climate change in the short term, the biological cost of doing so may ...

A research mission uncovered five new hydrothermal vents in a highly volcanic region of the eastern Pacific Ocean. The vents spew fluids hotter than 570°F, and have appeared as a result of the East ...