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Satellites reveal rise in Earth`s carbon dioxide emission

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 20:00

Ten years of satellite observations of greenhouse gases have revealed the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

NASA to launch LADEE mission on Friday

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 19:23

The US space agency, NASA, will launch its next mission to the moon on Friday in order to study the satellite’s super thin exosphere and dust.

Super-earth Gliese 1214 b likely to have a water-rich atmosphere

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 14:00

A research team from Japan has used the Subaru Telescope to observe the water-rich atmosphere of a super-earth, 40 light-years from our planet.

Return journey from Mars may be possible in future

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 20:06

According to Mars One, an organisation that has been calling for applicants to make such a journey in 10 years` time, more than 150,000 people would be willing to make the one-way trip.

NASA to launch Moon mission next month

Last Updated: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 13:28

NASA is making final preparations to launch a small car-sized robotic Moon probe next month in an attempt to answer prevailing questions about the lunar atmosphere.

NASA`s latest probe to sniff out lunar atmosphere

Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 14:08

NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 pm EDT Friday from it`s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

Russian meteor explosion`s dust lingered in atmosphere for 3 months

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 22:40

A meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk left behind a huge plume of dust, with hundreds of tons of material in it, in the atmosphere that still lingered three months after the February 15 explosion.

Lowest layers of Sun`s atmosphere observed for first time

Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2013, 22:27

NASA`s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of the lowest layers of the Sun`s atmosphere, which can now be observed in detail.

Tough to breathe on Mars

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 19:48

NASA`s Curiosity rover`s measurement of Martian atmosphere`s composition provides evidence about loss of much of Mars` original atmosphere.

Sharpest ever images of the Sun`s atmosphere captured

Last Updated: Monday, July 1, 2013, 14:05

Scientists have captured the sharpest ever images of the Sun`s outer atmosphere, using an innovative new camera on-board a sounding rocket.

Mars was oxygen-rich billion years before Earth

Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:12

Mars might have had an oxygen-rich atmosphere at a time, about 4000 million years ago, well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen on earth around 2500 million years ago.

Global warming likely to be slower than earlier predicted

Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:15

Scientists have said that the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.