The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly ...
A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, where no light can penetrate, was a scientific bombshell. Initial research ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT-led research suggests microbes used oxygen hundreds of millions of years before Earth’s Great Oxidation Event. (CREDIT: ...
A robotic chemist working autonomously in a lab has developed an oxygen-producing catalyst from minerals found in Martian meteorites. The same procedure could one day be used to provide oxygen for ...
A new breakthrough in oxygen generation technology using magnetic forces could dramatically change how astronauts survive on future missions to the Moon and Mars. As detailed in the peer-reviewed ...
The people of Earth have aspirations to return to the Moon and eventually colonize Mars, two places where oxygen isn't ...