Oxygen is abundant on Earth. It's actually the third most plentiful element in the entire universe, behind hydrogen and helium. Yet the further you get from our home planet, the less oxygen there will ...

In what's described as a key advancement for the development of systems to help propel humans into deep space, scientists have demonstrated a method of extracting oxygen from water in microgravity ...

One broken piece of quartz in a physics lab could shed light on the history of life on Earth and the search for other habitable worlds. Today, most life as we know it depends on oxygen. Specifically, ...

Have you ever seen a diving beetle? They’re one of my favorite animals. They live underwater and breathe air from a bubble attached to their butts. I talked about all the ways animals breathe ...

We can be guilty of thinking that oxygen is a uniquely human need. While all land-dwelling animals breathe oxygen from the air, fish need oxygen too. Not only this, but fish can run out of oxygen, ...

Embedded ‘nanocages’ help water dissolve large amounts of gas, and potential evidence that hominins walked on two legs seven million years ago. Although water is an excellent solvent, it’s limited in ...

The first color photo of the Martian surface, taken in 1976 by the Viking 1 probe. To survive on Mars' surface, astronauts will need oxygen, which only exists in trace amounts in the Martian ...