Life on Earth is made possible by the water on our planet's surface. Even in the near-freezing deep sea, organisms are able to thrive. But are hydrothermal vents where life began? Hydrothermal vents, ...

Stalks of iron-rich minerals, each a fraction the size of an eyelash, may be evidence of the earliest life-forms to inhabit the newborn planet Earth. The tiny hematite tubes are as much as 4.28 ...

The volcano, previously believed to be extinct, is indeed alive and well, its hydrothermal vents spewing plumes of hot, mineral-rich water into the otherwise frigid depths. For the Pacific white ...

The discovery involves three new hydrothermal vents that exist along the Mariana ... and then marked the approximate locations on a map for future study. “It’s like if we were in a helicopter ...

where they aim to map over 60 underwater volcanoes, study hydrothermal vents, and collect deep-sea biological and geological samples. Nautilus is currently docked at the Port Authority of Guam in ...

On May 20, the SETI Institute held its annual Drake Awards event in Mountain View, CA, honoring contributions to SETI or ...

The same geyser that erupted last summer in a hydrothermal explosion along a Yellowstone National Park boardwalk was caught erupting on video again thanks to a newly-installed webcam to track the ...

But here, on the top of a volcano standing 3,600 feet above the seafloor, the heat from hydrothermal vents converts the scenery into an evolutionary nursery. The biological reasoning is sound.

But a team of scientists has created a new way to answer whether aliens exist. Daniel Apai, an astrophysicist and ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see the moment an underwater volcano begins to erupt in real time, you may be in luck. It just needs to happen first. And you need to be watching a live stream of the event if ...

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