The air around you is so ordinary that you rarely think about it. Yet every breath, every sound you hear, every cloud in the ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

New research shows extreme drought weakened the Amazon's natural ability to remove isoprene from the air, creating a hidden ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost its water.

Each year, more than 3,000 tons of space dust fails to burn up in our planet’s atmosphere and falls instead to Earth’s surface. These micrometeorites are just a few microns in diameter, but scientists ...

Imagine for a moment the atmosphere is a kitchen sink. Wildfires, industry emissions, plants and microbes dump their grimy dishes into it in the form of noxious and planet-heating gases. The only ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Pluto’s atmosphere is hard to observe from Earth. It can only be studied when Pluto passes in front of a distant star, allowing astronomers to see the effect the atmosphere has on starlight. When this ...

Our atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with traces of other things like water and carbon dioxide. It's an odd mix compared to the atmospheres of other planets. Jupiter and Saturn are ...