The oxidative power makes atomic oxygen useful for a number of fields and industries, but scientists don’t know all the ...

You do not usually notice oxygen unless it is missing. It is just there when you wake up, when you step outside, when you ...

For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, ...

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Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized prize for mining companies in search of materials needed for humanity's ...

Scientists have for the first time detected oxygen on a comet, a finding that could upend theories about how the solar system was formed. Reporting their findings in the journal Nature on Wednesday, ...

A comet is leaking oxygen molecules that have been buried since the beginning of the solar system. “This is the most surprising discovery we have made so far,” study coauthor Kathrin Altwegg said at ...