New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an underwater volcanic ridge in the Arctic Ocean. The expedition, which concluded late ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for monitoring and predicting tectonic activity deep beneath the seafloor at ...

The human-occupied vehicle Alvin, during a dive on the East Pacific Rise, collected samples and recovered instruments placed at the vents during previous expeditions. Woods Hole, Mass (October 13, ...

Researchers believe the earliest forms of life on Earth began in hydrothermal vents—cracks in the sea floor that release hot, mineral-rich water. A team of scientists just discovered a hydrothermal ...

CINCINNATI — The Ridge Avenue ramp off of I-71 north near Columbia Township will remain closed for longer than initially announced, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. The closure was ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on the Underway Replenishment method that has been developed to refueled or replenish supplies to sea-going vessels in the middle of the ocean, while ...

Sasha Wagner, association professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, holds some of the “old” rocks formed when carbon solidified after an underwater eruption. She led a team that happened upon an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An underwater volcano off the Pacific Coast ...

Three hundred miles off the Oregon coast and 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, Axial Seamount—one of the Pacific Northwest's most active submarine volcanos—is showing signs of eruption. Last ...