Oxygen is abundant on Earth. It's actually the third most plentiful element in the entire universe, behind hydrogen and helium. Yet the further you get from our home planet, the less oxygen there will ...

A discovery from the "complete darkness" of the Pacific Ocean seafloor is testing the scientific consensus on how oxygen is made and has even called into question the origins of life on Earth, a new ...

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.

Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it, is largely made by plants. Whether underwater or on land, they do this by photosynthesizing carbon dioxide. However, a recent study ...

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 ...

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 ...