The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

Every spring, some of the mass within these caps sublimates to rejoin the atmosphere ... compounds that can condense to form new minerals. Examples on Earth include limestones (carbonate minerals ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is truly a remarkable world. It has a thick atmosphere as well as rivers, lakes, and seas ...

Though no definitive signs of life have been detected in Venus' atmosphere, some researchers think it is possible for life to exist in the comparatively moderate climate and reduced atmospheric ...

When Oscar Wilde said “conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative” he was unaware of some ... but the atmosphere is thin so the pressure is tiny. For example ...

This detection was surprising because the resonance was thought to be confined to a particular region of the atmosphere ... which added up to some 10,000 examples. While models suggest that ...

There are many ways a planet can lose some of its atmosphere. For example, chemical reactions can lock gas away in surface rocks or an atmosphere can be eroded by radiation and a stellar wind from the ...

However, finding proof that the solar wind has stripped away the Martian atmosphere bodes poorly for speculative plans to terraform Mars. There had been some hope that considerable chunks of the ...

For example, it was only during the Apollo missions ... which ends up creating a thin atmosphere. Some of that information was collected by a NASA satellite mission to the moon called the ...