Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in ...

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

Hidden Planet Scientists just discovered why Earth’s atmosphere is leaking It turns out the mysterious force is a previously undiscovered global electric field.

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

Looking like shooting stars, falling satellites burning in the atmosphere are leaving a trail of pollution that can damage Earth’s protective shield ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

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 ...

“Earth’s early atmosphere has to do with the evolution of a habitable planet,” says John Tarduno, a professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester in New York.

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.

A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth have interacted over the past 500-plus million years in ways that improved conditions for early organisms to thrive. Now, an interdisciplinary team of ...

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.