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

New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will ...

From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the surprising origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b ...

State Key Laboratory of Cryopheric Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its ...

International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, ...

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"Until we can separate these signals more clearly, we have to be especially careful not to misinterpret them as signs of life ...

Based on its position in the habitable zone and its likely rocky composition, scientists believe there is a significant probability that water could exist on its surface. Computer models suggest that ...

Doing so with the limited data that even instruments like JWST can ... we'll get closer to understanding the truth of the composition of K2-18b's atmosphere—and maybe whether we're not alone ...