People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar system – ...

A team of scientists exploring an underwater volcano have discovered that life below the seafloor is more thriving than we could have ever imagined. In a new article published in the scientific ...

Deep below the Pacific, a restless seafloor volcano off Oregon is showing signs it may soon stir again. Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano located nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface, is flexing ...

A massive underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, United States, could erupt any day now, according to top scientists closely monitoring the area. The Axial Seamount, a mile-wide submarine volcano ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, beyond sunlight and far from conditions most animals could handle, lives a crab that looks ...

GEOLOGIST SEAMOUNTS, Hawaii (AP) — The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts. The three-man submarine ...

An active underwater volcano off Canada's coast has revealed a vibrant deep-sea habitat, teeming with hundreds of thousands of Pacific white skate egg ...

* Study shows importance of deep-sea volcanoes in CO2 capture * Iron-rich waters from volcanoes crucial to global climate * Iron helps tiny CO2-absorbing plants bloom in oceans By David Fogarty, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James F. Holden, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) People have long wondered what life ...