23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
..., is in the form of elemental ratios such as oxygen isotopes and high strontium ratios that correspond with climate cooling... strontium in the continental crust. In addition, the oxygen isotope ratios correspond to the demise of planktonic and benthic...
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
..., scientists have studied the protoplanetary disc surrounding a pre-main sequence star to find that around 80 percent of oxygen atoms are locked up in a large reservoir of crystalline water ice – material that is crucial for facilitating the rapid...
13 July 2016
Reaction Engines sign new deal with ESA while UK Space Agency announces new facility
...’ air from the atmosphere. Rather than using a weighty on-board oxidiser such as liquid oxygen normally used by conventional rocket engines, SABRE uses oxygen already present in the atmosphere in the combustion process. This is more akin to how...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
...split water molecules apart, you end up with oxygen and hydrogen - two critical components for breathable ... compound than H2O. OH, also called hydroxyl, is made up of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom and therefore it would have to be extracted ...
