12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... larger asteroid it broke apart from eons ago had liquid water present on it at some point. Recently analysed data...that together form OH. Although not quite the formula for water (that requires an additional hydrogen atom), these hydroxyls are ...
01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
...had a thick atmosphere that retained enough heat for liquid water to flow on the planet’s surface. However much ..., besides sunlight, that the hybrid needs to function is water. Although water is produced as part of the synthesis program, it still...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Among these challengers include a team from Cornell that will use an experimental propulsion system that electrolyzes liquid water into oxygen and hydrogen for combustion. Another proposed application of interplanetary CubeSats is in mother-daughter...
28 June 2016
Oxides discovered on Mars hint at an oxygen-rich past
...form without lots of liquid water and strongly oxidizing conditions. Here on Earth, we had lots of water but no widespread deposits ...would be able to penetrate the atmosphere and break water molecules down to its constituent parts; hydrogen and oxygen...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
.... This occurs when so-called volatiles – substances like water and carbon dioxide – are stripped from a planet’s... planet of the seven, and has the potential to host liquid water. "Densities, while important clues to the planets' compositions, ...
07 October 2019
Salty rocks found by Curiosity supports theory that Mars once had vast lakes
...way has found many signs that point to the persistent of liquid water in Mars’ past; such as smooth, rounded pebbles that ...concentrated brines. As such, the presence of distinctively saline waters supports the hypothesis of Mars drying out during the ...
