A routine seafloor survey can sometimes redraw what we think we know about life in the deep. This find marries geology and ...

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 ...

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon is gearing up for an eruption, according to volcanologists who are monitoring for activity. The Axial Seamount-- an underwater volcano located about 300 ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and ...

Far below the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies Axial Seamount, the most active underwater volcano in ...