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Photo of a Martian crater.
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Geophysics Sheds Light on Early Martian Water and Habitability

by Michael M. Sori 15 April 202511 April 2025

A new study uses inversions of orbital gravity and magnetic field data to argue for the presence of ancient, long-lasting hydrothermal systems on Mars.

The Alvin submersible hovers over and illuminates the seafloor near the rocky towers of a hydrothermal vent site.
Posted inScience Updates

An Upgraded Alvin Puts New Ocean Depths Within Reach

by Kenna Harmony Rubin, Anna P. M. Michel and S. Adam Soule 31 January 202513 March 2025

The newly retooled submersible, which has already returned fascinating new findings from Earth’s watery depths, is opening more of the deep ocean to direct human exploration.

Image of an underwater volcano.
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Imaging Magma from Afar

by Peter Zeitler 20 December 202419 December 2024

Reservoirs of magma and fluids in the crust create gravity anomalies detectable by altimetry, which can help find submarine volcanoes and provide key insights into their depth, shape and volume.

A black smoker, shaped like a stone cylinder on the ocean floor, spews black smoke into the water.
Posted inNews

Arctic Hydrothermal Vents May Resemble Those on Enceladus

by Anna FitzGerald Guth 17 December 202417 December 2024

By studying hydrogen-rich vent sites on Earth, scientists could learn more about the hidden ocean of Saturn’s icy moon—one of our solar system’s likeliest candidates for harboring life beyond Earth.

Earth’s mid-ocean ridge system, shown in mostly blue and green.
Posted inNews

Mid-Ocean Ridges Could Be Dispersing Thermophilic Bacteria

by Miriam Bahagijo 12 December 202412 December 2024

Scientists suggest that two strains of endospores located more than 4,000 kilometers away from one another originated in the same place: along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

A spherical reddish planet with white ice at its base appears against a black background.
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Martian Meteorite Points to Ancient Hydrothermal Activity

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 November 202424 November 2024

The Red Planet had water—in the form of a hydrothermal system—4.45 billion years ago, new analyses of a Martian meteorite suggest.

A cross section of a core taken from Earth’s mantle, is seen under a microscope.
Posted inNews

Lost City’s Plumbing Exposed by the Longest Mantle Core Ever Drilled

by Nathaniel Scharping 12 September 202412 September 2024

The core, which is 71% complete, reveals millions of years of geologic history and the plumbing underlying hydrothermal vents.

A screenshot of a video taken from a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle shows white ash settled on the seafloor near the Hunga eruption in Tongan waters.
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The Tonga Eruption Left Deep-Sea Life Buried in Ash

by Andrew Chapman 11 July 202411 July 2024

When Hunga erupted in 2022, ash “decimated” slow-moving species living on the seafloor. More mobile species were able to hoof it out of harm’s way.

Scientists on a boat lowering a seismometer into the water.
Posted inEditors' Vox

The Not-So-Silent Depths

by Gaye Bayrakci and Frauke Klingelhoefer 9 February 202412 February 2024

A new book reveals that ocean depths are far from silent voids, but are actually alive with noise.

Tourists watch Old Faithful erupt.
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Steamy Bubbles May Control Old Faithful’s Clock

by Joseph Howlett 19 December 202319 December 2023

Scientists built a minigeyser to show why the natural wonder’s water surges so violently between eruptions.

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