The James Webb Space Telescope delivers the 1st detailed 3D map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing dramatic temperature ...

Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth’s atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The ...

In newly published research, CU Boulder scientists study a rocky exoplanet outside our solar system, learning more about whether and how planets maintain atmospheres In June 2019, Harvard ...

Over the past decade, southern Australia has suffered numerous extreme weather and climate events, such as record-breaking heatwaves, bushfires, two major droughts and even flash flooding. While ...

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth ...

Researchers say they have gathered evidence of Mars' atmosphere sputtering for the first time. Understanding how Mars' atmosphere has changed over time will undoubtedly help us discover more about the ...

Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...

Pluto, once considered the ninth planet of our solar system, has been a topic of intrigue since its reclassification as a dwarf planet. Recent observations suggest that its atmosphere is expanding, ...

Every day, fragments of Elon Musk’s internet megaconstellation are streaking across the sky and vaporizing long before they ever reach the ground. One to two Starlink satellites are now routinely ...