Scientists have proposed an interesting approach to increase the temperature of Mars, Earth’s planetary neighbour, by introducing engineered particles into its atmosphere. These particles, similar in size to commercial glitter …
The night sky is filled with countless stars and the occasional satellite gliding silently across the heavens. These satellites, essential for communication, weather forecasting, and navigation, seem like permanent fixtures …
NEW DELHI: In an unexpected finding, astronomers have detected the presence of phosphine, a toxic gas associated with anaerobic life on Earth, in the clouds of Venus. The discovery, published …
A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, scientist reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth – known as …
NEW DELHI: Venus, our neighbouring planet and closer to the Sun, is dry because the hydrogen in its atmosphere gets lost into space, thereby robbing the planet of one of …
Sometime in the next few years – no one knows exactly when – three Nasa satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant, will go dark. Already they are drifting, …
New Delhi: The world added a total of 3,143 objects to space in 2023, a 24 percent rise from the previous year when the number stood at 2,533. The Indian …
No good deed goes unpunished—and that includes trying to slow climate change. By cutting greenhouse gas emissions, humanity will spew out fewer planet-cooling aerosols—small particles of pollution that act like …
Life on Earth has existed for thousands of years, thanks in large part to the atmosphere‘s composition, which includes life-sustaining gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and others.Each …
Photographers are often inspired to shoot during the “golden hour”, but the International Space Station (ISS) has just snapped a photo that takes “golden” to a whole new level. While …