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

Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project ... some scientists and deep-sea mining companies began to criticize the study—including The Metals ...

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. NASA is also interested in ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings ...