A robot created chemicals to make oxygen from Martian rocks. The same process would have taken a human 2,000 years, according to researchers. The robot could one day help create human settlements on ...

One of the many pesky barriers to humans freely exploring and inhabiting Mars is the planet’s lack of oxygen. Luckily, NASA’s Perseverance rover can help. Using an instrument dubbed MOXIE (short for ...

(Nanowerk News) The Moon’s atmosphere is entirely devoid of oxygen. If humans want to stay there for extended periods, it will be of great benefit to make breathable oxygen there instead of having to ...

In February 2021, when NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover touched down on Mars to global fanfare, a modest golden box named MOXIE landed too. Strapped into the life-detecting Perseverance, this ...

Millions of miles away on Mars, in a barren crater just north of the equator, a rover is wandering around, carrying a gold-coated gadget the size of a toaster. The machine inhales the Martian air and ...

Inside NASA's Perseverance rover sits a boxy, toaster-sized instrument. The contraption, called MOXIE, has been successfully brewing up oxygen on Mars — a necessary requirement for sustainably working ...

Members of NASA's Mars 2020 project lower the oxygen-producing instrument, called MOXIE, into the Perseverance Mars Rover in March 2019. NASA/JPL-Caltech If humans are ever going to travel to Mars, ...

NASA suspects that the ice-clad moon Europa harbors a deep, deep sea — reaching some 40 to 100 miles (60 to 150 kilometers) down. And new evidence, from the space agency's Juno craft, points to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – NASA plans to make oxygen – a key ingredient of rocket fuel – on Mars early next decade. Space agency officials Thursday unveiled seven instruments they plan to put on a Martian rover ...