Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, ...

Earth, dubbed Kepler-725c, has been discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of its host star, offering new ...

New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s ...

The study shows that rising atmospheric demand for water is making droughts around the world up to 40 per cent more severe.

NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected, and unexplainable, C-shapes and X-shaped formations in part of Earth's atmosphere ...

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First came the surprising discovery that Earth’s atmosphere is leaking. But for roughly 60 years, the reason remained a mystery. Since the late 1960s, satellites over the poles detected an ...

But researchers are looking for ways to uncover clues to this transformation. “Earth’s early atmosphere has to do with the evolution of a habitable planet,” says John Tarduno, a professor of ...

A small and “harmless” asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines Wednesday afternoon, creating a fireball that lit up the sky, photos show. The asteroid zoomed high above ...

More information: Theodoros Christoudias et al, Earth's atmosphere protects the biosphere from nearby supernovae, Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01490-9 ...

Earth’s atmosphere is trapping more than twice as much excess heat now compared to 1993, making scientists increasingly concerned about the impact on the world’s oceans. The planet’s energy ...

A screenshot from footage captured by the Varda W-1 spacecraft, filmed as it plummeted through Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Varda Space Industries / YouTube A well-fortified capsule whizzed through ...