Search results for: atmosphere
Moon probe hopes to solve Apollo 17 mystery
9-7-2013 |
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NASA has successfuly launched its LADEE probe which aims to investigate the moon's atmosphere.
Alien world has water-rich atmosphere
9-6-2013 | 11
Japanese scientists have identified an extrasolar planet that could be a prime candidate for life.
Early Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere
6-24-2013 | 5
Mars could have sustained a habitable oxygen atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth.
Water detected in exoplanet's atmosphere
3-15-2013 | 17
Astronomers have conducted the most detailed examination yet of a Jupiter-sized planet's atmosphere.
3.5 billion-year-old fossil discovered
1-4-2013 | 36
Researchers have uncovered bacteria fossils so old that they predate oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
Trapped permafrost gases could be released
10-27-2012 | 37
Large quantities of greenhouse gases could be released in to the atmosphere over the next century.
'Water world' discovered
2-22-2012 | 28
Astronomers have discovered a distant extrasolar water planet shrouded in a thick steamy atmosphere.
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...
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...
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