Oxygen isn’t just the stuff we breathe. Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home,” Jim Reuter, associate ...

MOXIE is the Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment, and in 2021 it succeeded in being the first experiment to extract oxygen from the plentiful carbon dioxide in Mars' atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally turn CO₂ into oxygen (O₂) during photosynthesis, but their ...

New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

Modern-day Mars may be more hospitable to oxygen-breathing life than previously thought. A new study suggests that salty water at or near the surface of the red planet could contain enough ...

Trump wants to leave it on the Red Planet. Louis Friedman is co-founder and former executive director of the Planetary Society. The three big questions about life — What is life? How did life ...

A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task. The test took place April 20, ...

If humans are ever going to visit Mars, they may well need to make some crucial resources while they are there, in order to survive long enough to explore and restock for the long return journey ...

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 ...

Luckily, Mars has abundant resources that can be harvested and used to provide everything from oxygen, propellant, water, soil for growing food, and building materials.

MOXIE is the Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment, and in 2021 it succeeded in being the first experiment to extract oxygen from the plentiful carbon dioxide in Mars' atmosphere.

According to NASA, launching just four astronauts off the surface of Mars would require 15,000 pounds (7,000 kilograms) of rocket fuel and 55,000 pounds (25,000 kg) of oxygen.