The oxidative power makes atomic oxygen useful for a number of fields and industries, but scientists don’t know all the ...

For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, ...

The possibility of life on Mars may not be consigned to the distant past. New research suggests our neighboring world could hide enough oxygen in briny liquid water near its surface to support ...

QUESTION: Why can’t we combine hydrogen and oxygen to make water? ANSWER: We can combine hydrogen and oxygen to make water. And we can even get energy out of the process that we might be able to use ...

Follow the water and the oxygen. Just two of the key tenets of humanity’s early and ongoing exploration drives within our solar system. That research has received huge boons in the last two decades ...

Salty water buried just beneath the Martian surface could have enough dissolved oxygen to support microbes, and perhaps even simple animal life such as sponges in some places, a new study suggests.