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 ...

Potato-size metallic nodules strewn across the Pacific Ocean seafloor produce oxygen in complete darkness and without any ...

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

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

A team of scientists, including researchers from Boston University, recently uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held ...

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

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 ...