Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor host a broad range of rare and unusual ecosystems. They can be spread far apart, yet ...
A new type of jellyfish has been discovered at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean. A new “black smoker”–an undersea mineral chimney emitting hot springs of iron-darkened water–has been ...
Life may have emerged from an underwater chimney that percolated eons ago. If that’s true, a similar setup on ocean worlds in our Solar System like Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...