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.

University of Bristol astrophysicists are helping shed new light on an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away where liquid ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is experiencing an accelerated rate of atmospheric escape, leading to a faster loss of gases into space than previously observed. This revelation, founded on recent scientific ...

Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth's atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a ...

A team of researchers has identified a possible atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet. The researchers, from the University of St Andrews, have today published two separate papers on planet TRAPPIST ...

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 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 ...

A spacecraft slowly descends onto the surface of Mars. This once arid and lifeless red planet is now lush and vibrant. As a city comes into view, passengers see people strolling along bustling streets ...

JWST observations of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d reveal a lack of a substantial, Earth-like atmosphere, as indicated by a "flat" spectral signature lacking typical atmospheric molecule fingerprints (e.g., ...