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

The phenomenon of 'dark oxygen,' whereby deep-sea metallic nodules generate oxygen without sunlight, is reshaping our understanding of oceanic processes.

Sweetman is bullish about the prospects of finding dark oxygen production ... we just set out to measure sea floor respiration,” he says of his initial work. Could mysterious marine fungi ...

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even ...