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11 Apr 2018

NASA to study tiny sea creatures to understand Earth's atmosphere and climate

For the first time, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are studying the tiny sea creatures called phytoplankton and their impact on the atmosphere and climate of the Earth.

Chinese space lab

02 Apr 2018

Defunct Chinese space lab plunges back to Earth

The eight-tonne Tiangong-1 was mostly burnt up when it entered the Earth's atmosphere in the central region of the South Pacific at around 8:15 am Beijing time, China's Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said.

30 Mar 2018

China's space lab 'Tiangong-1' set to re-enter Earth this weekend

China's first experimental space lab, Tiangong-1, is expected to plunge back to the Earth's atmosphere this weekend.

20 Feb 2018

Earth's atmosphere may hold key to detecting alien life, says study

The new findings on how life evolves in different atmospheres could lay the foundation for scientists to interpret early biosignatures and signs of life on Earth-size exoplanets.

17 Nov 2017

Exoplanet twice the size of Earth may have similar atmospheric ingredients

Due to the intense heat from its host star and its inability to maintain liquid water, the exoplanet doesn't have the potential to support life

13 Oct 2017

Russia-backed European satellite to dedicatedly monitor Earth's atmosphere

The Sentinel-5P orbiter took off on time at 0927 GMT from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

31 Jan 2017

Earth may be sending oxygen to the Moon

Researchers found that Japan's SELENE lunar orbiter (aka Kaguya), detected high levels of oxygen ions – positively charged oxygen molecules – while it was orbiting the Moon between 2007 and 2009.

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.

Air density on early Earth

10 May 2016

Young earth's air weighed less than half of today's : Study

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