We examine means for driving hydrothermal activity in extraterrestrial oceans on planets and satellites of less than one Earth mass, with implications for sustaining a low level of biological activity ...

Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) have uncovered a massive hydrogen-producing hydrothermal system beneath the western ...

How can boiling water springs emerge so close to the shores of a Mediterranean island? This geological question has been answered by a team of researchers who uncovered a hydrothermal field of ...

The colorful Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the park’s largest and the third-largest spring in the world. Research by UW Professor Ken Sims and colleagues has provided new ...

A new review led by the MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen—highlights how hydrothermal vents on the seafloor shape iron availability and influence the global ...