A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

When a meteorite does survive past our atmosphere, it will usually be a small piece of ... seismologists and other scientists ...

By examining the flow and composition of cosmic dust during Earth’s early ... Unlike larger meteorites, which often burn up upon entry into the atmosphere, cosmic dust particles are small enough to ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

At CU Boulder, federal funding also supports research projects like the Dust Accelerator Laboratory that helps us understand ...

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant. According to the research, which assessed Hubble images taken between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus ...

Although the results of this study cover a long 20-year period, this still only reflects one period of seasonal change in Uranus’ atmosphere.

Its atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, like that of Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. But WASP-121b's atmosphere is not like anything ever seen before.

Atmospheric composition, climate and pollution research studies using Cape Grim radon data. Cape Grim radon measurements have been used in a wide variety of collaborative research studies, and the ...

The color of the sky depends on the composition of the atmosphere. On Mars, the thin atmosphere is primarily made of carbon dioxide and contains fine dust particles that scatter light differently ...