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The Dutch artist captured complex turbulent flow behavior decades before scientists formally described them.
Meteorites keep the Moon's fragile atmosphere alive.
A new study shows Earth's Great Oxidation Event was a prolonged, chaotic process lasting 200 million years with fluctuating oxygen levels
A new study is finally shedding light on an enigmatic atmospheric phenomenon known as “mesospheric ghosts” or “sprites”. These transient luminous events, akin to lightning yet dwelling far above the usual storm clouds, have long intrigued scientists and skywatchers alike. The research, spearheaded by María Passas-Varo and her team, employs advanced spectroscopy to analyze these […]
New AI is breaking through the atmospheric blur.
If microbes can do this, we should be particularly worried with our own impact on the climate.
This study says plastic pollution in the air is way worse than we imagined.
The troposphere is getting about 50 meters thicker per decade due the buildup of greenhouse gases, at a rate that has been increasing over time.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
It's big enough to know something is happening. But we're still unsure exactly what.
We only found this out by accident.
Can’t have smoke without fire.
Pluto's heart-shaped basin may be as important for its climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate.
The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.
Oxygen is rising and falling with the seasons unpredictably.
Saving money and saving the environment are my two favorite things.
Who said size doesn't matter?
This used to mess up our calculations, but now we understand why.
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
You should probably try really hard to hold your breath around there, though.
We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.
Tricksy, tricksy space.
Please stop.
Yikes.
Cool and pretty at the same time!? NASA gets the best things!
Can we get excited yet? Mmm no, not really.
Evolution doesn't always procrastinate. But when it does, it's for 2 billion years.
Who wouldn't?
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.
Reason number #1304 not to colonize Io.
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
NASA figured out how Mars transformed from a lush environment to a red desert.
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified a warm Neptune-sized planet that is "bleeding" a huge hydrogen cloud - thus increasing the odds of finding liquid oceans on gas giants.
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system - roughly the size of Neptune, orbiting a star 124 light-years away. This is the first time water vapor has been found on an alien planet smaller than Jupiter. The discovery is set to improve scientists' understanding of how planet forms and which planets may be best suited to support alien life.
Scientists from Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have analyzed the compositions of Martian meteorites found on Earth and data from NASA’s rovers, and they reached the conclusion that the Red Planet had an atmosphere pretty rich in oxygen 4 billion years ago. They compared Martian rocks with meteorites, and the fact […]
If you think today’s urban air, thickened with noxious smog, is terrible, just imagine how the Earth was filled in a shroud of hydrocarbons some 2.5 billion years ago. Back then, a haze dominated by methane engulfed the atmosphere such that light could barely reach the ground, similarly to what can be seen today on […]
It’s been less than a month since we published the last thing about the Cassini probe, and the amazing spacecraft has done it again; this time it detected a thin, oxygen atmosphere, on a moon of Saturn – Dione. The study was published in the Geophysical Research Letters At 1122 km in diameter, Dione is […]
Some species of bacteria can survive virtually anywhere: in acids, in nuclear waste, at extremely low or high temperatures, at extreme pressures, and so on; extreme microbes that survive on gases thrown out by Siberian hot springs may have played an extremely important role in the formation of our planet’s atmosphere and its composition, a […]
Back in September, a meteorite crashed somewhere in Peru, scaring locals and digging a hole in the ground, but pleased scientists which had the opportunity of studying it. But it behaved so strangely that in fact it forces scientists to rethink the way alien objects behave when entering Earth’s atmosphere and when they hit out […]
