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

A rare observance of a deep sea squid using one of its tentacles like a giant tongue got stranger still when it spewed out ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

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 ...

Weather factors are expected to steer Rafael away from Texas beginning this weekend, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... westward over the next couple of days as a ...