Researchers have recently discovered an impressive hydrothermal system in the western Pacific Ocean, and according to the team, it’s “challenging long-held assumptions” about where hydrogen is generated beneath the waves. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

To say this newly found field is impressive isn’t an exaggeration; the Kunlun hydrothermal system, as it’s been dubbed, is made up of 20 round-ish seafloor craters that are hundreds of meters in diameter, spread over an area that stretches 11.1 square kilometers (4.3 square miles). That’s over 100 times larger than the Atlantic Ocean’s Lost City. No, not that one – it's a hydrothermal field famous as a natural laboratory for studying how life on Earth may have

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