Deep beneath Yellowstone’s famous geysers, a hidden world of microbes and magma is responding to earthquakes in ways scientists are only now beginning to see clearly. Using artificial intelligence to ...

A robotic arm from the deployed sampling equipment on the seafloor. All photos courtesy of M. McCarthy. Researchers have found compelling evidence for an extensive biological community living in ...

Deep beneath the ocean's surface lies Earth's largest carbon reservoir: marine sediments that have accumulated organic matter over millions of years. Long assumed to be permanently "locked away," this ...

Here is a recent NY Times article on the Earth’s deep biosphere featuring the work of Alexis Templeton’s group in Oman.

Beneath the familiar crust we walk on lies a vast, unseen world teeming with microscopic life. For decades, scientists assumed the deep Earth was too hot, dark, and nutrient-poor to sustain anything ...