Putting boots on the Moon again is one thing. Establishing a presence on the Moon is something else — and we’re going to need oxygen to do that. Wearing oxygen tanks isn’t going to be enough for ...

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Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it has chosen a team to make oxygen on the moon. The team, led by aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space, will design and build a payload to create ...

NASA wants to figure out how future moon-dwellers can produce, capture and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

On Monday (March 4), scientists announced they've managed to measure how much molecular oxygen — the type of oxygen we breathe on Earth — likely exists around Jupiter's moon Europa. Although ...

Scientists at Nanjing University believe they can use compounds found in lunar soil to locally produce oxygen and fuel to support crewed moon missions. The team analyzed lunar samples collected by ...

British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base. It ...

Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil. According to the agency, it’s the first time such an extraction was completed inside a vacuum ...

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