Uncovering dark oxygen revealed just how little is known about the deep ocean, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, in particular.The region is being explored for the deep-sea mining of rare ...

New research challenges a long-held assumption about oxygen in the deep sea, with scientists finding oxygen produced without photosynthesis in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

Dark oxygen is the term the team came up with to describe the oxygen that is being produced in the lightless ocean floor.

"Dark oxygen" is being produced deep in the ocean, and scientists are baffled by the strange phenomenon, according to a new study. In science class, kids learn that plants need sunlight to do ...

Dark oxygen and the search for extraterrestrial life. Officials at NASA are interested in the research on dark oxygen production because it could inform scientific understanding of how life might be ...

A new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), published in The ISME Journal, sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats ...

The dark oxygen findings also raise questions about the origins of life itself. "This discovery implies the possibility that aerobic [oxygen-dependent] life arose before photosynthesis evolved ...

Scientists may have discovered 'dark oxygen' created without photosynthesis It has long been understood that photosynthesis creates oxygen, but researchers believe they've found oxygen being ...

Sweetman and his team discovered the phenomenon, dubbed “dark oxygen,” accidentally while sampling the seabed over 13,000 feet down in a 1.7 million square mile swath of seafloor located ...

Uncovering dark oxygen revealed just how little is known about the deep ocean, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, in particular.The region is being explored for the deep-sea mining of rare ...

Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface By Katie Hunt , CNN 7 minute read ...

Uncovering dark oxygen revealed just how little is known about the deep ocean, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, in particular.The region is being explored for the deep-sea mining of rare ...