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.

In 1997, a fire broke out on the Mir space station, the predecessor of the International Space Station. The culprit was the ...

Soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, scientists in China report May 5 in the journal Joule. They are now exploring whether lunar resources ...

In the wellness world, there’s a lot of pseudoscience circulating around about the human gut microbiome, the swimming colonies of microbes that inhabit our bowels, especially when it comes to selling ...

Magnets could make bulky centrifuges obsolete in space oxygen systems. Scientists have developed a more efficient way to generate oxygen for astronauts that could help with future missions into deep ...

Dr. Thomas Marshburn, Sierra Space chief astronaut and VP of human factors engineering.. Photos: Getty Images Sierra Space is gearing up for life off-planet. The Louisville, Colorado-based aerospace ...

Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station successfully conducted experiments on artificial photosynthesis, converting carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and ethylene, a hydrocarbon usable as ...