The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...

Yet, Arkisys, the company Barnhart cofounded in 2015, is focusing on low Earth orbit (LEO) — the buzzing region closest to Earth up to altitudes of about 1,200 miles (2,000 km).

Source: Jonathan McDowell General Catalog of Space Objects *Data as of April 15, 2025. Satellites in low-Earth orbit eventually have to come down, and companies rely on the upper atmosphere to act ...

La Nina exits after three weak months, leaving Earth in neutral climate state The natural cooling flip side of the better-known and warmer El Nino climate phenomenon has dwindled away after just ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, according to new research. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Air is lighter than our bodies, but all those miles of air in the atmosphere amount to a lot of weight. "The total mass of Earth's atmosphere is 5.1 billion billion kilograms, or 11.24 billion ...

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The environmental impacts are still uncertain.