Earths

A 6,000-year onset, coupled with estimates that 10,000 gigatons of carbon were injected into the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide or methane. Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped…

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a billion-dollar project jointly developed by NASA and CNES, took off at 1146 GMT atop a SpaceX rocket. A satellite lifted off Friday from California on a mission to survey nearly…

A Franco-US satellite is due for launch this week on a mission to survey with unprecedented accuracy nearly all water on Earth's surface for the first time and help scientists investigate its impact on Earth's climate. For NASA and…

PTI Michigan, November 30The amount of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one per cent of the atmosphere consists…

Point Nemo, which is encircled by the Pacific Ocean, is located thousands of kilometres from any populated areas. Not even the explorers who first found it could get here. The site contains no data whatsoever on human beings, or any other…

The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial. A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading…

A recent solar storm put a hole in the magnetosphere, allowing dangerous solar particles to pass through. The Sun is in the middle of its 11-year solar cycle leading to an increase in solar activity and solar output in the past few…

Weighing only about 300 kg, the satellite made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere at the predicted impact point. RISAT-2, launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2009, made an uncontrolled re-entry…

Ever wondered what the protective layer of Earth, the magnetic field, sounds like? Now you can hear it. Check the spooky sound now. The Earth has been blessed with a magnetic field layer, also known as the magnetosphere, which makes life…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 01, 2022 17:52:17 ISTThis week, the Chinese space program successfully launched the final piece of their own version of the Tiangong space station. The 23-ton module called Mengtian will provide pressurized volume for…