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'Futuristic Circular Flying Object' developed
7-19-2011 |
14
A radio-controlled flying sphere has been created in Japan to assist in search and rescue operations.
Atomspheric heating could predict quakes
5-19-2011 | 10
Days before the March earthquake in Japan the atomsphere above the epicentre heated rapidly.
Saturn moon has oxygen atmosphere
11-26-2010 | 43
A thin oxygen atmosphere has been discovered on Rhea, one of the moons of Saturn.
Mars "Hopper" could run on Martian gases
11-23-2010 | 3
Future robotic missions to Mars could use gas from the Martian atmosphere to "hop" large distances.
$438 million mission to Mars greenlit
10-8-2010 | 0
NASA has greenlit an ambitious Mars mission designed to study how the planet lost its atmosphere.
Seeking alien life in Earth's atmosphere
10-4-2010 | 5
Britain is launching a mission to search for signs of alien micro-organisms in the upper atmosphere.
NASA hopes to send a spacecraft to the Sun
9-5-2010 | 24
NASA are planning to send a spacecraft in to the outer atmosphere of the Sun in an ambitious new project.
Apollo 13 crew would have burned up
4-12-2010 | 39
Apollo 13 would have burned up in the atmosphere if they hadn't made it back safely it has been revealed.
Exoplanet atmosphere studied from Earth
2-4-2010 | 3
Astronomers have been able to use new ground-based techniques to study the atmosphere of a distant extrasolar planet.
Water vapour a major cause of climate change
1-31-2010 | 40
A new study has revealed that water vapour high in the atmosphere plays a crucial role in influencing world temperatures.
Methane study boosts hunt for life on Mars
12-9-2009 | 2
British scientists have succeeded in ruling out one of the three possible sources for methane detected in the Martian at...
Piece of historic spacecraft up for grabs
11-8-2009 | 1
A piece of Apollo 11 is expected to fetch a high price at auction, the scrap of Kapton Foil would have helped protect th...
Radiation prevents manned Mars mission
9-19-2009 | 19
Radiation may prove to be the single biggest hurdle in putting a human on the planet Mars. Without the protective atmosp...
Man-made volcanoes may cool Earth
9-1-2009 | 28
A controversial new area of research is being backed by the Royal Society which plans to simulate volcanic eruptions and...
Were there oceans on ancient Venus ?
7-15-2009 | 0
A new study based on a map of the planet's southern hemisphere taken by the Venus Express spacecraft has suggested that ...
Earth's protective shield is stealing our air
6-1-2009 | 11
The Earth's protective shield, the magnetosphere, may not only be protecting us from the harmful charged particles strea...
NASA investigates growing algae as biofuel
5-21-2009 | 7
NASA are investigating the possibility of farming algae as a cheap and clean way to produce an alternative to foreign oi...
Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens
5-19-2009 | 2
The upcoming generation of space telescopes will for the first time be able to detect "biosignatures" in the light from ...
How satellites could 'sail' home
5-12-2009 | 0
A new proposal has been made in an effort to curb the amount of debris present in orbit by having redundant satellites d...
Finding twin Earths is harder than thought
3-24-2009 | 8
NASA's recently launched Kepler spacecraft is on a mission to find Earth-sized planets around distant stars, but once it...
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