Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

A new study suggests that ancient microbes once cast as oxygen haters may have actually learned to use the gas, offering a clue to how the first complex cells — and, eventually, all plants and ...

Learn how oxygen’s early rise could have given complex life the energy boost it needed to evolve.

American space agency announced it performed integrated prototype testing on the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) to make oxygen on the Moon.

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO 2 is directly split ...