NASA recognizes the need to change this model, and MOXIE is very much a step in this direction. If an alien space probe were to come to Earth, it wouldn’t face much of a challenge to extract ...

Oxygen is abundant on Earth. It's actually the third most plentiful element in the entire universe, behind hydrogen and ...

MOXIE hitched a ride to Mars on NASA's Perseverance Rover in 2021 and has been hard at work ever since. Over the last 2.5 years, it created 122 grams of oxygen — enough to keep a small dog alive ...

"They basically enable new tools in our toolbox." NASA expects MOXIE to extract oxygen from the Martian atmosphere at least nine more times over the next two years. This first attempt was designed ...