A bizarre new discovery in the deep Pacific Ocean has scientists scratching their heads, and for good reason. Far beneath the ocean’s surface, in a region where sunlight never reaches, oxygen is being ...

The Perseverance rover, currently exploring Mars, isn't just performing scientific analyses and collecting samples. It also carries a small machine on board that could change the future of Mars ...

Seven newly reported ceramics show how a single, counterintuitive move, simply stripping oxygen out of existing compounds, ...

Potato-sized lumps of metal on the seafloor are generating oxygen, a new study has found. Scientists previously believed that oxygen was strictly formed as a byproduct of photosynthesizing plants.

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly ...

A study suggests giving oxygen at a concentration of 90 to 100 percent soon after birth could halve the risk of death for very premature babies that need help breathing. Giving very premature babies ...

BU researcher Jeffrey Marlow says the new oxygen findings could shift conventional thinking about life and habitats in the deep ocean—and on other planets. Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the ...