On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an instrument the size of a lunchbox is proving it can reliably do the work of a small tree. The MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ ...

If you've ever seen renderings of what Mars would look like if it were a lush, fertile jungle planet with vast oceans and a thick, luscious atmosphere, such a world could only exist if there was ...

On April 20, 2021, the spiritedly-named MOXIE experiment on Mars extracted 5 grams of oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, demonstrating a potential future capability of an established human presence ...

MOXIE is the first experiment to suck in the planet's thin, carbon dioxide-laden air and transform that native resource into oxygen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the ...

If humankind is ever to step foot on Mars, they'll need a bountiful source of oxygen. Crewed missions could of course lug their own oxygen or oxygen-producing materials with them from Earth both to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to ...