May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
...blocks for construction, and the extraction of hydrogen, oxygen and water as raw commodities. Terrestrial solar concentrators ...the concentrators to extract metals in addition to hydrogen, oxygen and water, and/or sinter regolith. All components need...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...probably require the same mixture of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulphur, along with “... as well as vast quantities of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, all in forms readily accessible to those clever enough to use ...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
...pressure in vacuum, regulate temperature across extremes, manage oxygen flow and carbon dioxide removal, and shield astronauts...but they impose real costs: restricted mobility, chronic oxygen leakage, high maintenance demands and cumulative strain on ...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... for the habitability of the planet. "Absence of traces of ozone in future observations does not have to mean there is no oxygen at all. It might be found in different places than on Earth, or it might be very well hidden,” explains Carone. "We all...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
.... Water is made from two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2O) but not all hydrogen atoms are the...contributed to our oceans alludes Desch, as water is hydrogen plus oxygen, and oxygen is abundant, any source of hydrogen could have served as the...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
... most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen and helium. This means that water, which consists of an oxygen atom along with two hydrogen atoms, is also expected to be overabundant in such atmospheres. After assessing extensive spectroscopic...