Swiss pilot surpasses solar-powered plane altitude recordSwiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 metres, h...
13 Aug, 2025, 05.19 PM IST
India conducts maiden flight-trials of stratospheric airship platformIndia successfully conducted the first flight trials of a stratospheric airship platform developed by the DRDO in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh. ...
05 May, 2025, 03.27 PM IST
Did a Southwest Airlines flight flying over Hawaii nearly crash into the ocean?A flight flying over Hawaii nearly crashed into the ocean when it attempted to land due to prevailing weather conditions. The pilot aborted...
15 Jun, 2024, 06.42 PM IST
What happened on board the London-Singapore flight that caused turbulence? Here are detailsAn investigation has been carried out about the flight of the Singapore International Airlines that ran into air turbulence. It was hit by ...
30 May, 2024, 10.11 PM IST
Bangalore Watch Company tests its apogee wrist watch in Space, prototype travels 35 km into Earth's atmosphereBangalore Watch Company successfully tests Apogee wristwatch in Space, marking a significant milestone in the brand's history. The Karman L...
04 May, 2024, 07.22 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
2019 ozone hole is the smallest on record: NASAThe annual ozone hole reached its peak extent of 16.4 million square kilometers on September 8, and then shrank to less than 10 million squ...
22 Oct, 2019, 03.16 PM IST
- Gravity waves force Jupiter jet stream to change direction
Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) A NASA-led team has found that gravity waves force an east-west jet stream speeding through the atmosphere high a...
19 Dec, 2017, 12.07 PM IST
- 'Hot Jupiter' with deadly stratosphere stuns scientists
Washington, Nov 30 (IANS) A NASA-led team of scientists has determined that WASP-18b, a "hot Jupiter" located 325 light-years from Earth, h...
30 Nov, 2017, 11.47 AM IST
- Ozone hole smallest since 1988: Scientists
Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) A hole in the Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September due to warm air was the smallest this ...
03 Nov, 2017, 01.52 PM IST
- NASA delays balloon launch due to poor weather
Washington, April 10 (IANS) NASA has postponed the third launch attempt of its super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka, New Zealand, on Mo...
10 Apr, 2017, 10.42 AM IST
- NASA spots mysterious ice cloud over Saturn's moon Titan
Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) NASA's Cassini probe has found a strange ice cloud over Titan that appears to be made up of compounds that barely...
22 Sep, 2016, 12.27 PM IST
NASA super pressure balloon begins around-the-world journeyThe purpose of the flight is to test and validate the super pressure balloon technology with the goal of long-duration flight (over 100 day...
19 May, 2016, 04.58 PM IST
- Chinese stratosphere airship conducts first flight
China recently conducted its first test flight of an indigenously made stratosphere airship which is capable of long flights in the stratos...
08 Dec, 2015, 10.45 PM IST
Antarctic ozone hole expands to record levels: NASAThe 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, scientists from NASA and NOAA have said.
30 Oct, 2015, 04.39 PM IST
NASA's Hubble finds 'sunscreen' layer on distant exoplanetScientists have detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on the exoplanet known as WASP-33b.
12 Jun, 2015, 03.44 PM IST
NASA aims to develop 'eco-friendly' supersonic aircraftNASA said that supersonic jets travel at higher altitudes than regular jets, so they have a greater potential to damage the ozone layer.
08 Jun, 2015, 05.21 PM IST