These deep-sea rocks, known as polymetallic nodules, not only provide a habitat for numerous marine organisms but also, ...

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

Rocks are generating 'dark oxygen' in an area being explored for deep-sea mining. Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton ...

Researchers have found oxygen-producing rocks on the deep seafloor, challenging what we know about oxygen production.

Scientists have discovered 'dark oxygen' that is produced deep underwater, potentially reshaping our understanding of life on ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source ...

The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot of interest. Could this oxygen source ...

Scattered across the bottom of the world’s oceans and seas is a resource so abundant it could power the planet’s transition to a greener future. But there’s a catch – a big one. Join ST's ...

This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how “dark oxygen”—which is oxygen produced without sunlight—is produced ...

Adepth Minerals also criticized the researchers for not measuring whether hydrogen was created. Hydrogen would also be formed ...

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, about 12,000 feet below the surface, lies a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

There are plenty of questions to continue asking, Marlow says, about what the dark oxygen discovery means for extraterrestrial oceans and our own. “For the most part, we think of the deep sea as ...