The towering spires of carbonate rock found in the field were formed by a geological reaction known as serpentinization, ...

Researchers have uncovered a "lost city" in the Atlantic Ocean that could unlock the secrets of life's emergence on our ...

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists are doing new research on the Hydrothermal Field, an undersea world that may hold the ...

The mid-Atlantic ridge, seen in deep orange, on a NASA Earth Observatory bathymetry map. NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, using data from Sandwell, D. et al. (2014) ...

Hidden deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a remarkable undersea landscape known as the Lost City Hydrothermal Field could be ...

A high-temperature hydrothermal vent field discovered on Puy des Folles Seamount on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at approximately 6,562 feet in depth. Schmidt Ocean Institute Thousands of feet beneath ...

Similar openings on the sea floor were first spotted 18 years ago along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Their origins remain unknown. Scientists are asking the public for their thoughts.

Scientists in an expedition to the Mid-Atlantic ocean ridge lifted almost a mile of precious rocks from beneath an exotic feature linked to life’s possible beginning. By William J. Broad ...

Enhanced spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge due to ice melting from Greenland may have contributed to that fiery past—allowing more magma to rise to the surface, fueling the eruption of ...

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

Petrological systematics of mid-ocean ridge basalts: Constraints on melt generation beneath ocean ridges. Pp. 183–280 in Mantle Flow and Melt Generation at Mid-Ocean Ridges. J. Phipps Morgan, D.K.