Highlights TDLAS based system for water-vapor measurement through varying smoke obscuration. Pre- and post-suppression concentrations comparable except in metal structure.

Water is essential for life as we know it. However, scientists debate how it reached the Earth and whether the same processes could seed rocky exoplanets orbiting distant stars. New insights may ...

"Water vapor in an atmosphere on a hot rocky planet would represent a major breakthrough for exoplanet science. But we must be careful and make sure that the star is not the culprit," said study ...

An artist’s concept of GJ 486 b, a hot, rocky exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star some 26 light-years away from Earth. Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope hints at water vapor in the ...

Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of a Neptune-size exoplanet about 150 light-years from Earth, according to research presented Thursday by astronomers at the University of Kansas.

And because water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, the decline has slowed the increase of global temperatures, Rosenlof, Susan Solomon, also of NOAA in Boulder, and their colleagues report ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center image: On Sept. 15 at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 UTC), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered water vapor information about Hurricane Paulette.

Cornell astronomers played a key role in developing the instrument responsible for discovering the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the moon this past October. NASA’s Stratospheric ...