Enceladus and Europa, icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, respectively, are believed to be
habitable with liquid water oceans and therefore are of interest for future life detection …

Members of the bacterial genus Sulfurimonas (phylum Campylobacterota) dominate
microbial communities in marine redoxclines and are important for sulfur and nitrogen …

For decades, hydrothermal activity along the Red Sea Rift was only inferred from
metalliferous sediments and hot brines. Active hydrothermal fluid discharge was never …

Hydrothermal vents emit hot fluids enriched in energy sources for microbial life. Here, we
compare the ecological and biogeochemical effects of hydrothermal venting of two recently …

Nearly 30% of ocean crust forms at mid-ocean ridges where the spreading rate is less than
20 mm per year. According to the seafloor spreading paradigm, oceanic crust forms along a …

Life on our planet likely evolved in the ocean, and thus exo-oceans are key habitats to
search for extraterrestrial life. We conducted a data-driven bibliographic survey on the …

Evidence of hydrothermal venting on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Central
Arctic Ocean has been available since 2001, with first visual evidence of black smokers on …

Volcanic centers are characteristic features of ultraslow-spreading mid-ocean ridges, the
least-explored parts of the global ridge system. Volcanic centers can provide insights into …

Deyin-1 hydrothermal field is located on the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (SMAR) 15° S. The
geochemical characteristics of substrate basalts record the incorporation of Saint Helena …

Oceanic spreading centers north of Iceland are characterized by ultraslow spreading rates,
and related hydrothermal activity has been detected in the water column and at the seafloor …