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09 Mar 2019

Morning Breaking: Need to maintain an atmosphere of unity says Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi cited the case of the attack on Kashmiri traders in Lucknow to illustrate a point: "It is crucial to maintain an atmosphere of unity".

13 Apr 2018

Mountain erosion may add CO2 to atmosphere: Study

The process of mountain erosion can be a source of new carbon dioxide gas that can release it back into the atmosphere far faster than it is being absorbed into newly exposed rock, a study has found.

China's space lab

27 Mar 2018

China's space lab Tiangong-1 is falling to Earth this week

Space authorities said that the space lab should burn up in the atmosphere.

06 Oct 2017

Moon once had an atmosphere: NASA study

When one looks up at the Moon, dark surfaces of volcanic basalt can be easily seen to fill large impact basins.

17 Jun 2017

NASA’s MAVEN reveals how Sun stripped Mars' atmosphere

Since its launched in November 2013, MAVEN has come up with multiple discoveries, revealing how the Sun stripped Mars of most of its atmosphere.

28 Apr 2017

Rising levels of carbon dioxide may change crucial marine process

Climate change may be putting cyanobacteria, that are crucial to the functioning of the ocean, at risk.

11 Apr 2017

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere

The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the mysterious electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere) of the Red Planet.

earth-like planet

10 Apr 2017

Earth-like planet 'GJ 1132b' outside our Solar System has its own atmosphere

The planet known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet Earth, is orbiting a red dwarf star GJ 1132 in the southern constellation Vela, at a distance of 39 light-years from us.

08 Dec 2016

Hot hydrogen atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere found

A team of University of Illinois researchers has discovered the existence of hot atomic hydrogen (H) atoms in an upper layer of Earth's atmosphere known as thermosphere.

Greenhouse gases

15 Oct 2016

Global deal reached to phase out super greenhouse gases

In a major step toward curbing global warming, the world community agreed on Saturday to phase out a category of dangerous greenhouse gases widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

02 Oct 2016

Mars crust dynamically contributed to makeup of its atmosphere: NASA

The findings come from the NASA's Curiosity rover's Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument suite, which studied the gases xenon and krypton in the Mars atmosphere.

Hubble Space Telescope

21 Jul 2016

NASA's Hubble conducts first atmospheric study of earth-sized exoplanets (Watch)

The findings increase the chances of habitability on two exoplanets - TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c.

14 May 2016

Cosmic dust unveils Earth's ancient atmosphere

Using the oldest fossil micrometeorites - space dust - ever found, the new study has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago.

19 Dec 2015

Rise in oxygen gave breath of life to evolution

According to a recent study, the 'explosion' of animal life on Earth may have taken place after slow rise of oxygen.

13 Nov 2015

NASA steps up efforts to better understand carbon, changing climate

So far, half of all all carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and other sources are getting absorbed by the land plants and ocean.

12 Nov 2015

Newly-found earth-sized rocky planet too hot for life

Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet that, in the language of "Star Wars," would be the polar opposite of frigid Hoth, and even more inhospitable than the deserts of Tatooine.

Rheumatoid arthritis

09 Oct 2015

'Rheumatoid arthritis aggravates during high air pollution'

Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis aggravate in a patient when presence of air pollutants increases in the atmosphere, found a study by AIIMS.

02 Oct 2015

Did ET actually trespass Earth's atmosphere?

Space experts were left astonished when they saw a video of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in the northern suburbs of Oregon and appeared to show a bright object drifting through the sunset.

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