Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even ... have major implications for several scientific fields, including space exploration. If oxygen ...

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

Languages: English. 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 ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy was exploring the other "final frontier" -- the sea. A series of underwater habitats called "Sealabs" were constructed for scientific exploration on the ocean floor.

The existence of dark oxygen challenges this paradigm, indicating that oxygen can also be produced through abiotic processes involving metallic polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor. The ...