The Progress MS-29 vacated its spot for the Progress MS-31 cargo spacecraft that will launch to the ISS on July 3 ...

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The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future ...

Between 50 and 1,000 kilometers above our heads is the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere consisting of charged ...

Rocket launches have connected the world, revolutionised earth and space sciences, and filled pop star Katy Perry with love.

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Temperatures can reach up to 3,500F (1,925C), high enough to break up the nitrogen molecules that make up 80% of the atmosphere. The atoms recombine with oxygen into nitrogen dioxide, referred to ...

A research group has succeeded for the first time in investigating the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere. This has now been announced by the European Southern Observatory ...

In a paper to be published April 18 in Science, data from three of Curiosity’s drill sites revealed the presence of siderite, an iron carbonate mineral, within the sulfate-rich rocky layers of Mount ...

“The VLT enabled us to probe three different layers of the exoplanet’s atmosphere in one fell swoop,” said Leonardo A. dos Santos, an assistant astronomer at the Space Telescope Science ...

An artist’s impression of the three different layers of the atmosphere on WASP-121b, according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit: ESO Until now, researchers have been able to ...