20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... pointed out the science linking Hope and NASA’s Perseverance rover - Hope is meant to observe, in part, the carbon dioxide dominating Mars’ atmosphere, while an instrument aboard Perseverance will try to turn some of the poisonous gas into...
27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
... similar way to photosynthesis, the organisms appear to undergo radiosynthesis, meaning that instead of using sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into an energy source for food they use melanin to convert gamma-radiation into chemical ...
02 November 2020
Rare meteorite reveals evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago
... of hydrogen, which would have contributed to planetary warming at a time when Mars already had a thick insulating atmosphere of carbon dioxide." This could raise the surface temperature of early Mars above the freezing point of water for several...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... an Earth-like biosphere by means of ‘oxygenic’ photosynthesis - the process plants on our planet use to convert light and carbon dioxide into oxygen and nutrients. All except one. That planet is Kepler-442b; a rocky planet about twice...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... compound on their surface has been observed, it is thought that they are coated in tholins, organic compounds such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and ethane (c2H6) formed by the Sun's radiation. To date, no mission has gone through...
02 February 2022
Global warming trend shows no sign of abating
... mitigate its devastating effects.” The global warming trend is due to human activities that have increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the effects are evident in declining Arctic sea...
