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Rocks lying on the seafloor could be causing a chemical reaction that produces oxygen, upending beliefs on how oxygen first filled the Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Chinese scientists have developed an implantable battery that ingeniously uses oxygen already inside the human body.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Test Battery Powered by the Body’s Oxygen

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

By Victor Tangermann

The Moon's top layer of rocky soil, known as "regolith," likely contains enough oxygen for 8 billion people to survive for about 100,000 years.

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen Buried Beneath Its Surface to Sustain Billions of People

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scientific instrument attached to NASA's Perseverance rover just sucked up a bit of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and turned it into oxygen.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Turned Martian CO2 Into Oxygen

By Victor Tangermann

At least 20 ventilated coronavirus patients died after an Indian hospital ran out of the oxygen it needed to support them.

Oxygen Failure Kills 22 in COVID Treatment Ward

By Dan Robitzski

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.

Science & Energy

“Mind Boggling” Behavior of Oxygen on Mars Has NASA Stumped

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency just greenlit a UK aerospace manufacturer's tests of a novel air-breathing rocket engine that sucks up atmospheric oxygen.

Amazing New Rocket Engine Sucks up Atmospheric Oxygen for Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

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Science & Energy

Oxygen Found on the Moon Could Provide Answers About Ancient Earth

NASA: “We’re Going to Try and Make Oxygen From the Atmosphere on Mars”

NASA: “We’re Going to Try and Make Oxygen From the Atmosphere on Mars”

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Science & Energy

Another Form of Complex Life May Have Once Lived on Earth

Chemicals Found on Mars Point to Oxygen-Rich Past

Chemicals Found on Mars Point to Oxygen-Rich Past

By Jelor Gallego

NASA Just Detected Oxygen in the Martian Atmosphere

NASA Just Detected Oxygen in the Martian Atmosphere

By Science Alert

Scientists Find Ancient Gas Cloud That May Be Relic from the First Stars in Our Universe

Scientists Find Ancient Gas Cloud That May Be Relic from the First Stars in Our Universe

By Sarah Marquart