YELLOWSTONE, Wyo. (KTVX) — Part of Yellowstone National Park has been shut down after officials say a hydrothermal explosion scattered debris and destroyed a nearby boardwalk. Shortly after 10 a.m.

Deep-sea hydrothermal systems are rare, but one of the best known is the Lost City, discovered in the Atlantic Ocean more than two decades ago. Lost City earned its name from its tall carbonate towers ...

The biochemist Nick Lane thinks life first evolved in hydrothermal vents where precursors of metabolism appeared before genetic information. His ideas could lead us to think differently about aging ...

Hydrothermal systems form when seawater seeps deep into Earth’s crust through cracks and fractures. There, it reacts with mantle rocks and rises back up, carrying heat and minerals. At Kunlun, that ...