The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

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

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 ...

Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.

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

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, where no light can penetrate, was a scientific bombshell. Initial ...

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 follows last year's ...