28 June 2016
Oxides discovered on Mars hint at an oxygen-rich past
... and wondering how the heck these could have formed." On Earth, the transformation from relatively low oxygen abundances to the oxygen-rich atmosphere we see today, is marked by the appearance of high concentrations of manganese oxide minerals in our...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
If humanity wants to settle somewhere beyond our planet 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 come by in the vast expanses of the cosmos. Not only that but ...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... plant, making it into a large structure, or taking carbon dioxide – the bulk of the atmosphere – and converting it into oxygen,” she said. “This process allows us to convert these abundant materials into useable things: propellant, breathable air...
14 December 2020
Systems shutdown as ISS suffers from power and oxygen failures
...) has in the last week suffered a string of failures resulting in a number of systems being shut down, including the oxygen supply in the Russian segment and one of the four gyroscopes that support the station's orientation in space...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
...to a new technique that allows scientists to detect oxygen more clearly. Oxygen is essential for life as we know it. On...important to know whether and how much dead planets generate atmospheric oxygen, so that we can better recognise when a planet is ...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
... is not playing ball; oxygen. Oxygen should follow suit, but it isn’t. Oxygen has been observed to show...the answers yet. Nobody does." Both of these organic molecules, oxygen and methane, can be produced from biological processes (i.e from microbes...
