A flurry of criticism followed the article’s publication, including from the deep-sea mining company that funded the study, ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules could be producing “dark oxygen” are embarking on a three-year research project to explain their findings.