A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously thought.

With the osmium isotopic composition of mantle rocks retrieved from the sea floor at the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean, Liu and colleagues 1 appear to have identified up to 2.2-billion-year-old ...

Caption Aurora’s hydrothermal vents at Gakkel Ridge (Central Arctic). A snapshot of a hydrothermal vent (upper left corner, indicated by the red arrow) and chimneys (yellow-orange structures on ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

The studied rocks were collected from the Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole and the ... The slow pace of the spreading at these ocean ridges means that they are relatively quiet, volcanically ...