A crater created by an asteroid impact in South Korea has revealed traces of ancient microbial life preserved beneath its ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, ...

Scientists studying South Korea’s only confirmed impact crater have discovered microbial structures beneath the ...

Hydrothermal mineralization encompasses the precipitation of economically and scientifically important minerals from hot aqueous fluids circulating within the Earth’s crust. Driven by magmatic heat or ...

We've all seen the surreal footage in nature documentaries showing hydrothermal vents on the frigid ocean floor—bellowing black plumes of super-hot water—and the life forms that cling to them. Now, a ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal ...

The hydrothermal vent field featured numerous volcanic flanges that create the illusion of looking at a mirror when observing the superheated (366ºC) hydrothermal fluids beneath them. The minerals ...

A new study uses an innovative approach to examine a shallow-water hydrothermal system and the production of microbes there in situ and near natural conditions as a model to assess the importance of ...

There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stickers: “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Before mining can ever start, though, there has to be ore in the ...

Gold is a precious metal that has always fascinated humans. From Priam's Treasure to the legend of El Dorado, gold --regarded as the noblest of metals-- has been a symbol of splendour and wealth in ...