Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

If you are planning on driving in Yellowstone National Park when most of its roads open in April, you could drive by one of ...

In 1977, explorers in a submersible called Alvin found hydrothermal vents on the ocean bed near the Galapagos Islands. Though completely dark, the area around the vents was teeming with life ...

Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal activity like that found ... as very hot water spewed out of vents into the 3-degree Centigrade ocean water. A dusting of white lay around the vents ...

A park scientist noticed it about two weeks after a hydrothermal explosion along a boardwalk during the park’s overactive summer.

See some of the images brought up from early trips to the Galápagos Rift, where an ecosystem thrives around hydrothermal vents. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – A new volcanic vent was discovered at Yellowstone National Park, the U.s. Geological Survey (USGS) announced this week. The USGS noted the feature is a hydrothermal ...