Antarctic Ozone Hole Slightly Smaller than Average This Year! News and images from NASA The ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than average...
Seasonal carbon dioxide range expanding as more is added to Earth’s atmosphere Northern Hemisphere land-based ecosystems “taking deeper breaths,” scientists find News from the National Science Foundation Levels of...
Space foil helping to build safer cars By ESA (Image:Piezoelectric sensor material developed for space programmes is now used in car crash tests to improve safety). A special foil sensor developed to measure the...
Final ‘go’ for Vega launch News from ESA (ESA’s new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket’s inaugural flight. Flight VV01...
Image of the Day Gallery- Portrait of a Doomed Asteroid By NASA A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares detected by the Chandra K-ray Observatory for several years in...
Path to Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere: Long Series of Starts and Stops Rock cores from Northwest Russia provide new insights From National Science Foundation (Image: Panorama of Russia’s Imandra/Varzuga Greenstone Belt where FAR DEEP...