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

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

Languages: English. Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative ...

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

The existence of dark oxygen challenges this paradigm, indicating that oxygen can also be produced through abiotic processes involving metallic polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor. The ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy was exploring the other "final frontier" -- the sea. A series of underwater habitats called "Sealabs" were constructed for scientific exploration on the ocean floor.

NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite documented more information about Earth’s enigmatic ocean floors in the first year of operation than previous ... NASA’s dual-purpose ...

Dark oxygen’ sounds sexy and mysterious, but science rarely delivers on its amorous threats. In this case, dark oxygen refers ...

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 ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered ...