Recently, the astronomical community has made an exciting discovery: water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a star system that comprises of seven Earth sized planets, out of which three are in the Goldilocks zone.

The Earth’s atmosphere is experiencing an accelerated rate of atmospheric escape, leading to a faster loss of gases into ...

In the vast night sky, meteors are one of the most mysterious and beautiful astronomical phenomena. They streak across the ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address ...

A recent study combining observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and detailed analysis published in The ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, ...

Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste of a nightmare climate ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

If you could travel about 15 to 30 kilometres above your head, you would reach a part of the atmosphere that most people never see but depend on every single da ...