Oxygen is hard to produce without the continuous energy that comes from sunlight, but other scientists have also encountered unexpected oxygen molecules in remote, light-deprived places. Sweetman said ...

but other scientists have also encountered unexpected oxygen molecules in remote, light-deprived places. Sweetman said that dark oxygen production may be a wider phenomenon that has been overlooked.

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

Engineers from Sierra Space, a private company, have developed a machine designed to extract oxygen from lunar soil, also ...

A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of ...

"Those O2 molecules were exclusively produced via abiotic [non-biological] processes," writes the team of researchers led by Shan Xi Tian and and Jie Hu at the University of Science and Technology of ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in ...