If we want to find an alien civilization, our best bet is another oxygen-rich planet
A planet's atmosphere would need to contain at least 16 percent oxygen to support fire.
Tag: oxygen
There’s virtually no oxygen on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. What does this mean for the prospect of alien life?
Europa produces about 100 times less oxygen than previously estimated.
Climate change is choking the oxygen out of deep water, and it’s putting fish in a double bind
It's not a good time to be a fish.
Earth’s rotational slowdown may have led to life as we know it
The transition towards longer days may have allowed cyanobacteria enough breathing room to produce enough oxygen to dramatically and forever ...
Another first: NASA’s Perseverance rover extracts oxygen on Mars
NASA's new Mars rover is marking one milestone after the other, paving the way for human exploration of Mars.
How Mars brine could produce breathable air and fuel for a colony
We absolutely need this if we're to ever establish a colony on the Red Planet.
This company’s weird mission: turning moon dust into oxygen
To build a moon base, you first need oxygen.
Scientists find the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen
Scientists always thought animals need oxygen to survive. That's now a myth.
This is the first animal we know that doesn’t breathe
We though all life needs oxygen. We were wrong.
A new study says oxygen buildup on Earth was “inevitable,” and maybe on other planets, too
The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.
Curiosity rover stumbles upon mystery of oxygen on Mars
Oxygen is rising and falling with the seasons unpredictably.
The best fossils may need oxygen — just a little — to form
Oxygen, in the right place at the right time, makes for spectacular fossils.
Lunar dirt can be broken down into oxygen and metals
This study rocks.
Key variable used to study Mars’ ancient atmosphere varies during the day
This used to mess up our calculations, but now we understand why.
Geologists uncover ancient mass extinction from 2 billion years ago
It's all about the oxygen.
Iron-breathing bacteria might have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for almost one billion years
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
Meet the fish that can hold its breath underwater
A deep-sea creature is the first fish that we know of that holds its breath underwater.
Comet-inspired reactor could create oxygen for astronauts
Comets seem to release molecular oxygen all the time -- and some scientists have recreated the process on Earth.
The ISS starts experimenting with a photo-bioreactor
A hybrid bio-technology could pave the way for future space missions.
There are arsenic-breathing microbes in the tropical Pacific, a new study finds
Oxygen? In this economy?! Pffff.
The European Space Agency wants to mine the moon for oxygen and water
Should everything go according to plan, ESA wants to launch the mission by 2025.
Comet 67P harbors oxygen molecules as old as the Solar System
I wonder if it smells stale.
Denying cancer cells one key amino acid might destroy treatment-resistant tumors
Attack the enemy where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
World’s largest dead zone identified in the Gulf of Oman — it’s nearly the size of Florida
"Piracy and geopolitical tensions" kept it hidden from the scientific community until now.
Long-term exposure to mictrogravity can lower physical fitness down by half
And exercise doesn't fix it.
The oxygen in the oceans has decreased by 2% in the past 50 years
It's like the ocean is having a heart attack.
Early life kept oxygen in check and stalled evolution for billions of years, model suggests
Evolution doesn't always procrastinate. But when it does, it's for 2 billion years.
A whole new branch of life could have evolved and died off on Earth 2,4 billion years ago
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.
Ancient rocks reveal causes of Earth’s greatest mass extinction event
The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.
Rocks prove Mars used to resemble the Earth a lot — but no, that doesn’t mean there was life on it
But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.
Water-breathing scuba mask design still has a way to go
South Korean designer Jeabyun Yeon has just unveiled his new concept of a scuba mask that would allow anyone to ...
Big Surprise: Rosetta finds primordial oxygen on a comet
For the first time, astronomers have detected primordial oxygen gassing out from a comet
Algae and bacteria will provide oxygen for astronauts living on Mars
NASA has partnered with a private company to design and build an oxygen production facility for a Martian outpost or ...
Blowfish don’t actually hold their breath when inflated
When under threat, the pufferfish quickly inflates into a spherical shape to help it ward off and escape predators. Until now, ...
New crystal might allow us to breathe Underwater
Researchers from Denmark have synthesized crystalline materials that can bind and store oxygen in high concentrations, releasing them when needed. A ...
Injecting oxygen filled particles lets you survive without breathing
Photo: Ocean Networks Canada Without oxygen, your brain would shutdown within five minutes or so and you, as a person, ...
For the hive: bacteria grow altruistically for the greater good of the colony
Researchers at MIT found that individual cells in a bacterial colony will grow in a manner that is beneficial to ...
Why men have bigger noses than women
Men have noses 10 cm longer than women (on average), even with the same body size This happens because men ...
Dinosaurs lived in low-oxygen world, amber shows
An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, from the University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere ...
New study claims Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4 billion years ago
Scientists from Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have analyzed the compositions of Martian meteorites found on ...
When laying the foundations for life, the Universe leaves little room for error
Light quark mass determines carbon and oxygen production and the viability of carbon-based life. Image credit: Dean Lee. Earth and ...
Earth’s prehistoric atmosphere was covered in a haze similar to Saturn’s moon, Titan
If you think today's urban air, thickened with noxious smog, is terrible, just imagine how the Earth was filled in ...
A thrilling first! NASA detects ‘alien’ matter from outside our solar system
For the first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - matter that drifted from ...
New insight on water’s strange properties
The paradox of water is that everybody knows it, but no one really understands it. It's the most fascinating substance ...
Evolution – 2 billion years late ?!
Recently, the University of California, Riverside provided some materials that shocked me, to say the least. According to that research, ...