Carbon dioxide is being converted into oxygen on Mars thanks to an invention undergoing testing that could lead to the colonization of the red planet. Day and night across the seasons, a ...

A toaster-sized scientific instrument attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover just sucked up a bit of carbon dioxide from the surrounding Martian atmosphere and converted it into oxygen. It’s a ...

NASA sent the Perseverance rover to Mars with some bonus technology: a device that can turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, much as trees do on Earth. The device, called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource ...

New study shows that geological storage of low-purity carbon dioxide mixed with oxygen and nitrogen from direct air capture is an environmentally friendly and economically viable approach to remove ...

"This reaction should be observed in the upper atmosphere of Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered a ...

Researchers have retrieved samples of 1.4 billion-year-old air from ancient crystals and found something surprising about a ...

The gas is an essential part of life on Earth—but right now we have too much of a good thing. Cineca in Bologna, Italy, is a computing center with one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.