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 Zone ...

This "dark oxygen" is believed to be produced through a process called seawater electrolysis, facilitated by minerals targeted for deep sea mining. The discovery raises concerns about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

But that, of course, might delay any deep sea mining until the implications of that mining for dark oxygen are clarified. I've written about deep sea mining before to discuss a bacterium that ...