Astronomers utilized data from the Gemini South telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from NASA to detect silane (SiH₄) in the atmosphere of "The Accident." This simple molecule ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have found that Earth's atmosphere experienced three major oxygen surges over the past 2 ...

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

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

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

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 ...

For a long time, the planet TRAPPIST-1e, located 40 light-years from Earth, has been considered a target in the search for extraterrestrial habitable worlds. An international team, using the latest ...

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

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 ...

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., ...