The model suggests that in a billion years, Earth will lose its oxygen, and with that, humans will cease to exist.

In a daring demonstration aboard China’s Tiangong space station, a Chinese astronaut recently ignited a match in orbit, an ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

Atomic oxygen, a highly reactive species prevalent in low Earth orbit (LEO), poses a persistent challenge to the durability of spacecraft materials. The erosive nature of atomic oxygen results in ...

Producing oxygen is tricky under weightless conditions in space. But the addition of a simple magnet can simplify the process of electrolysis, scientists report. The electrolysis system aboard the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In space, bubble trouble hampers oxygen production needed for astronauts to breathe. But neodymium magnets could coax bubbles off electrodes in microgravity to boost the efficiency of splitting water ...

In microgravity, flames form a spherical shape due to the absence of buoyancy-driven convection. Meanwhile, flames are ...

An 80-year-old woman in Japan lost all her life savings to a scammer posing as an astronaut who claimed to be stranded on a besieged spacecraft and needed money to buy oxygen, according to a report.