From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

The process renews the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world. On land ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

A new study about Earth's northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety ... been detected along ultra-slow spreading mid-ocean ridges [MORs] to date, the nature of more than ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. "As ice volume ...