Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

water at turns frigid and searing—this seafloor environment seems more like something from deep space than from our own deep sea. Yet amazing communities of life exist at hydrothermal vents and ...

In contrast to the interesting hydrothermal activity at Yellowstone National Park, 2024 was seismically calm, writes Michael ...

At hydrothermal vents, the energy from the breakdown of hydrogen sulfide, a common compound in vent plumes, drives chemosynthesis, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.