An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

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New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

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Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Scientists found that volcanic eruptions triggered short-lived oxygen spikes before Earth's air became breathable.

“That’s zero, folks!” quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an email. The brief surge of interest in 2024 YR4, which made its way into ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

"The oxygen content in these ecosystems is an important indicator of ecological health," says Wettstein. In order to achieve the desired properties, Bezdek's group specifically designed the sensor ...

New Delhi: Ancient volcanoes spewing lava could have helped inject much-needed doses of oxygen into the atmosphere billions ...