Researchers headed by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital have, for the first time, shown that reduced oxygen intake, or “oxygen restriction,” is associated with longer lifespan, and reduced ...

Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains.

A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth’s atmosphere some 2.4 billion years ago, but a full understanding has proven elusive. Now a new model offers ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A research team of biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of oxygen in the ...

Oxygen fills the air today, but for most of Earth’s early history it barely existed. Scientists say the atmosphere did not hold steady oxygen until about 2.33 billion years ago, during the Great ...