The Tonga Eruption injected water vapour into the stratosphere, temporarily altering global atmospheric chemistryA massive underwater volcano eruption near Tonga in 2022 sent a huge amount of water vapor into the stratosphere. This event, unlike typica...
18 Feb, 2026, 07.18 PM IST
ISRO's new meteorological satellite initiates earth imaging operations, first captured images releasedPayloads on the INSAT-3DS generate over 40 geophysical data products such as Sea Surface Temperature, Rainfall (precipitation) Products, La...
11 Mar, 2024, 07.36 PM IST
Pineapple Express: Atmospheric rivers bring high wind gusts and power outages throughout USAtmospheric rivers enter the US West Coast as heavy rain and power outages are being reported in many cities.
28 Dec, 2022, 12.34 AM IST
Hubble finds first evidence of water vapour on Jupiter's moon GanymedePrevious studies have offered circumstantial evidence that Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, contains more water than all of ...
27 Jul, 2021, 04.29 PM IST
Space tourism: Rockets emit 100 times more COâ‚‚ per passenger than flights - imagine a whole industryThese gases and particles have many negative effects on the atmosphere. In the stratosphere, nitrogen oxides and chemicals formed from the ...
21 Jul, 2021, 11.26 AM IST
This exoplanet, twice the size of the Earth, may have right conditions for lifeIt has been suggested that K2-18b would be more like a smaller version of Neptune.
28 Feb, 2020, 05.29 PM IST
Mars terraforming not possible with current technologiesScience fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, ...
31 Jul, 2018, 01.19 PM IST
- TRAPPIST-1 planets may still have water, finds Hubble
London, Sep 1 (IANS) The outer Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 might still harbour substantial amounts of wat...
01 Sep, 2017, 01.17 PM IST
Giant exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere discoveredThe atmosphere WASP-121b - a gas giant exoplanet commonly referred to as a "hot Jupiter" - was observed using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
03 Aug, 2017, 02.27 PM IST
- Hot exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere found
Washington, Aug 3 (IANS) In a first, scientists have detected glowing water molecules in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar syste...
03 Aug, 2017, 11.12 AM IST
- Water vapour plumes found on Jupiter's moon Europa, life next?
Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) In a surprise find, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have spotted water vapour plumes erupting off...
27 Sep, 2016, 09.59 AM IST
Scientists 'map' water vapour in Martian atmosphereConditions on Mars - low temperatures and low atmospheric pressure - do not allow water to exist in liquid form in open reservoirs as it wo...
23 Dec, 2014, 06.04 PM IST
- Warming will increase lightning by 50%: Experts
New climate models have predicted a 50% increase in lightning strikes across the world during this century as a result of warming temperatu...
15 Nov, 2014, 06.59 AM IST
Ferocious lightning strikes all set to increase globallyNew climate models have predicted a 50% increase in lightning strikes across the world during this century as a result of warming temperatu...
14 Nov, 2014, 01.14 PM IST
Global temperatures to rise 4 degrees by 2100Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 degrees celsius by 2100 and potentially more than 8 degrees by 2200 if carbon dioxide emis...
01 Jan, 2014, 02.42 PM IST
Water in Earth's atmosphere may cause climate warmingResearchers found that increased surface temperatures, such as from the addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, leads to increased hu...
06 Oct, 2013, 02.01 PM IST
- Asteroid strike in oceans can destroy ozone layer: Study
An asteroid splashdown in one of the Earth's oceans could trigger a destructive chemical cycle that would wipe out half the ozone layer, a ...
27 Oct, 2010, 03.44 PM IST