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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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., ...