There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that maintain life, said Donald Canfield, a ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy, which is known as JADES-GS-z14-0, is 13.4 billion light years away ...

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As stars evolve, they create heavier elements like oxygen, which get dispersed through their host galaxy after they die. Researchers had thought that, at 300 million years old, the universe was ...

This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated JADES-GS-z14-0, has 10 times the amount of heavy elements that would be expected in a galaxy ...

Deep beneath the ocean's surface, in the pitch-black abyss, scientists have uncovered a fascinating phenomenon: "dark oxygen.

As stars evolve, they create heavier elements like oxygen, which then gets scattered through their galaxy after they die. Researchers previously believed that a galaxy such as JADES-GS-z14-0, which is ...

JADES-GS-z14-0, the farthest known galaxy, has oxygen, a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Skoltech scientists discovered over 200 carbon-oxygen compounds with high energy potential, some rivaling TNT, offering new ...