The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Big storms can strip some parts of Jupiter's atmosphere of ammonia, while leaving buried reservoirs of the gas elsewhere.

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti. More than 100 million ...

One long line of powerful winds can whip up dust storms, spread wildfires, spin up tornadoes and fuel blizzards – all at the ...

For over half a century, scientists suspected a quiet but powerful electric field might be influencing Earth’s upper ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to particulate matter levels across the city being ...

"The phenomenon is highly repeatable. We discovered an unplanned new technique for identifying objects entering the earth's atmosphere." Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced ...

Specifically, the atmospheric air pressure. Also known as barometric pressure, it’s a measurement of the air pressure in Earth’s atmosphere, according to science blog How Stuff Works.

Compare that to Earth, where the mass-fraction of water is just 0.02%. Yet if TOI-152b had been reduced by stellar radiation, there would be no water or atmosphere left at all. Instead ...