By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

The largely unexplored region is home to a tectonic plate junction that is “the only modern site in the world where a ...

“Only recently have cameras become capable of filming bioluminescence in high-resolution and in full color,” Haddock added.

Volcanoes, undersea vents, and mid-ocean ridges are all found where Earth's plates collide or separate. Each of these ...

In the ocean, this same process creates mid-ocean ridges. Hot magma from Earth’s mantle wells up at these ridges, forming new ocean crust and shoving the plates apart. Underwater mountains and ...

More information: Jingbo Nan et al, Unraveling abiotic organic synthesis pathways in the mafic crust of mid-ocean ridges, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.

New seafloor forms in places where magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge and cools to form volcanic rock. The hydrothermal vents spew into the cold sea the super-heated ...

A named storm will likely form in the Northwest Caribbean later this week, and it could strengthen and head toward Florida or ...

A new glowing nudibranch species is the first known to swim through the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for ...

D.C.’s winters are steadily warming and average snowfall amounts are declining over time because of climate change. Considering this, it would be going out on a limb to forecast a cold and snowy ...