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

These deep-sea rocks, known as polymetallic nodules ... a process the researchers have termed "dark oxygen" because it occurs without sunlight. However, the exact mechanism remains unclear ...

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

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 ...

Created over millions of years, manganese nodules along the abyssal plain contain many of the metals needed to make batteries ...

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

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 ...

It is unfortunate that the study that found “dark oxygen” produced by metallic nodules on the seabed is having such a quick and negative effect on potential deep-sea mining. This form of ...

Researchers are screening actinobacteria found in Arctic Sea invertebrates to find potential antibiotic candidates.

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 ...