Bathymetric data showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin. Credit: NOAA National Ocean Service. The longest mountain range on Earth is not the Andes, the Rockies or the ...

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 18:56:58 UTC on June 17, 2026, registering at a depth of 10.0 km beneath the Atlantic seafloor. The U.S. Geological Survey’s ...

Scientists have discovered three new hydrothermal vent fields over a 434-mile-long stretch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the first scientific expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's recently ...

Scientists exploring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge stumbled across a towering white hydrothermal field unlike anything they had seen before. The structures rise nearly 60 meters, survive without volcanic ...

Seawater is chemically altered when it encounters super hot rocks, generating something akin to smoke that billows from chimneys on the seafloor, scientists say. Schmidt Ocean Institute photo Deep sea ...

A high-temperature hydrothermal vent field discovered on Puy des Folles Seamount on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at approximately 6,562 feet in depth. Schmidt Ocean Institute Thousands of feet beneath the ...

This high-temperature hydrothermal vent field was discovered during the expedition on Puy des Folles Seamount in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, at approximately 2000 meters deep. The tallest black smokers ...

A team of international scientists on board the RV Falkor (too), a research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, recently discovered active hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Voyage to the Ridge 2022 was a series of three telepresence-enabled ocean exploration expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer that totaled 74 days at sea. Mapping operations and remotely operated ...