Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even more about their ...

A breakthrough discovery of oxygen production in darkness could redefine life's origins on Earth and open new frontiers in space exploration.

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

A flurry of criticism followed the article’s publication, including from the deep-sea mining company that funded the study, ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

The discovery is attracting attention worldwide as it challenges the conventional scientific consensus that oxygen is ...

Professor Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues set out to measure seafloor respiration but instead stumbled upon a hidden ecosystem capable of producing oxygen. The most crucial ...

Dark oxygen denotes oxygen that is produced in the deep ocean without sunlight. It arises from the interaction between rare metal deposits on the ocean floor and saltwater. This oxygen generation ...

Deep-seafloor organisms consume oxygen which scientists believe is produced by seawater electrolysis without light or sunshine.