Methane reacts in the atmosphere to form components of fine particulate air pollution, which can penetrate deep into the ...

Radioactive decay is a fundamental process in nature by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. Studying ...

New techniques and refinements of older ones are needed to reach <1 K for quantum-computing cooling. Part 1 provided an ...

Europe’s top oil producer has backed a project aiming to capture carbon dioxide from European factories and bury it beneath ...

For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, albeit in a very different form than on Earth. New research by NASA reveals that ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Using samples collected by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission, researchers have discovered a new way to release water from lunar ...

It was originally named “Gigaton” after the one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide most scientists say will be necessary to remove from the atmosphere each year to slow global warming. The company ...

The air we breathe is a mixture of different gases made up of 78.1% (by volume) nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, and 0.04% carbon dioxide. Oxygen is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere, essential ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago.

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