A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

Flying remains the safest form of transportation, but a slew of recent turbulence incidents have caused injuries, ...

Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so ...

“Our planetary atmosphere models are derived almost exclusively from these Earth models,” said Scot Rafkin, a planetary meteorologist at the Southwest Research Institute.

This low-density planet has a fluffy appearance due to its unique atmospheric composition, which includes clouds of silicate sand. The findings reveal that the planet is not only an intriguing object ...

Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere – a trait considered essential for any possibility of harbouring life. Well, they finally seem to ...

Webb found that one or the other, or possibly both, were present in the planet’s atmosphere at a 99.7% confidence level, meaning there is still a 0.3% chance of the observation being a ...

The properties of the exoplanet K2-18b and its atmosphere are largely a mystery, so it's unclear how long — or even whether — DMS could truly survive. There's also little information about how ...

The agency said the planet’s orbit was viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope. During one observation, NASA said the planet did not appear to be losing any of its atmospheric material.

A newfound rocky planet could be the most important world found beyond our solar system and is close enough for scientists to study whether it has an atmosphere. GJ 1132b is just 39 light-years ...

Prof. Nikku Madhusudhan, a Cambridge University astrophysicist, says the discovery of two gases — dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS — in the atmosphere of a planet will ...