Deep beneath the surface of the ocean lies an extreme marine ecosystem home to submarine volcanoes, an opening in the seafloor erupting with magma to form new crust. Void of light with an immense ...

In a discovery that is both visually stunning and scientifically surprising, researchers have uncovered a massive nursery of ...

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 ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for ...

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 ...