29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
...then one of the problems we will face is a shortage of molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe. Unfortunately for us, O2 is very hard to ... our surprise, the excited state did not create molecular oxygen. Instead, the molecule decomposed into other products. ...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
...-fi film, astronomers have for the first time detected molecular oxygen beyond the Milky Way and it has turned up ... authors would also like This first detection of extragalactic molecular oxygen will go some way in helping scientists to understand the...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
... – SAM has deducted that Mar’s atmosphere is composed of: 95% by volume of carbon dioxide (CO2), 2.6% molecular nitrogen (N2), 1.9% argon (Ar), 0.16% molecular oxygen (O2), and 0.06% carbon monoxide (CO). SAM’s analysis also reveals how this thin and...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
..., plants and trees convert molecules such as carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2) – molecular oxygen, O2, and atomic oxygen, O, are both referred to as oxygen – in a process called photosynthesis. It stands to reason therefore that finding copious...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
...in these UV observations were explained by the presence of molecular oxygen (O2). But some observed features did not match the expected... in the moon's atmosphere. "So far only the molecular oxygen had been observed," explained Roth. "This is produced...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... team where able to measure whether living organisms would be able to efficiently produce nutrients and molecular oxygen via normal i.e Earth-like oxygenic photosynthesis. The results were not great. The data showed that stars with temperatures...
