11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
...now simply too inaccurate. Although the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey track... that stem from Earth’s core, mantle, crust and oceans, as well as from the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Although...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... evidence suggests Mars has a planet-wide system of channels that once connected underground lakes with an extensive ocean that covered much of the martian surface. Our fascination with whether Mars was once more temperate...
22 May 2019
Water came to Earth when the Moon formed says study
The idea that a vast stream of water-laden comets crashing on our planet gave Earth its oceans is a long-held theory that has comfortably persisted for decades. Now however scientists have suggested that it ...
05 June 2019
UK government backs ambitious space plans
... ( ESA ) will collaborate closely on science, space and ground systems technology with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) in the United States. In the next 5 years NOAA and ESA , with support...
15 December 2020
NOAA launches Crowdsourcing competition for better forecasting of magnetic field
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in partnership with the NASA Tournament Lab today announced its crowdsourcing challenge, “...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... Galileo on the interior composition of Europa, suggest a liquid layer could be there. Estimates of the thickness of the ice-ocean layer range from 80-150 km, of which the ice layer is thought to be between a few and 20 km thick. Habitability Having...