Submarine volcanoes, volcanic structures hidden beneath the ocean surface, play a vital role in shaping Earth’s geology and marine ecosystems. Formed through tectonic plate movements, rising magma, ...

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 – ...

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 ...

AP Photo/Caleb Jones VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, HI -- For the first time in three years, lava from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is entering the Pacific Ocean - where it's creating new land and ...

(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 ...