The deep-sea environment comprises a wealth of distinct ecosystems, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and subsurface habitats. A multitude of bacteria and archaea live in these distant niches ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

Cool to moderately warm hydrothermal vents circulating water through the seabed could sustain habitable conditions on moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus for billions of years.

Goffredi and her students ultimately discovered three new species of spiders living exclusively at methane seeps and hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, according to a paper published Monday in ...

Gabriella’s research explored how life can survive in extreme environments like deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The study discovered a new microbe called strain Ax23, a heat-loving organism that produces ...

The eruption of the underwater Hunga volcano emitted the highest plume of ash ever recorded-an event that was visible from ...

A World First: Stunning Coral Gardens and Hydrothermal Vents The expedition to the South Sandwich Islands revealed several hydrothermal vent systems previously unknown to science. These vents, which ...

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We have used a hovering-type AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle), “Hobalin” for investigation of hydrothermal fields. Data of deep seafloor images and water sensor were obtained. Both optical ...