Minute traces of specially designed greenhouse gases can be used to heat up Mars and make the planet habitable much faster than anyone thought possible. "On the Earth these gases may be pollution,

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced a new programme of Mars exploration that aims to proceed at a "more methodical and leisurely pace'. Till now two missions

NASA discovers the largest ever ozone hole over Antarctica. A wake up call for industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

This year, South African forests could face fires which will be twice as fierce as the usual ones, indicates a field experiment, which was supported by the National Aeronautical and Space

The Galileo spacecraft launched in 1989 to survey Jupiter and four of its moons may be close to a fiery end. A NASA (National Aeronautic and Space Administration) panel has recommended that the

global warming is responsible for melting more than 50 billion tonnes of water per year from the Greenland ice sheet, leading to a 59 centimetres rise in global sea level over the last

Following two winters of low ozone loss in the stratosphere, the Arctic is likely to have experienced record ozone destruction. The ozone layer thins out during spring but so far has never

US scientists use radar to capture every single detail of the Earth s topography

A satellite tracks outbound electrons from the Earth s poles to understand the northern lights

According to the panel commissioned by the National Space and Aeronautic Administration (NASA) to find out what went wrong with the Mars Polar Lander, has said that a confused sensor may have led the