When a huge dust storm on Mars—like the one in 2018—reaches its full power, it can turn into a globe-bestriding…
An atmospheric drama has been playing out on Mars lately. Up until now, the main actor has been methane, and…
A unique, low-cost, and crowd-scream-sourced experiment has proven what all sci-fi movie fans know is true: In space, no one…
It's easy to take for granted the detailed, almost real-time knowledge of Mars that we have at our fingertips. After…
The Raikoke Volcano, dormant for a very long time, has awoken from its slumber. The volcanic island is in the…
A lot of the headlines and discussion around the habitability of exoplanets is focused on their proximity to their star…
Scientists have known for some time that Earth's atmosphere loses several hundred tons of oxygen each day. They understand how…
Noctilucent clouds 50 miles above the Earth in the mesosphere. A NASA mission spent five days above the Arctic photographing…
Data from the Cassini mission has revealed a massive hexagonal shaped storm high in the stratosphere of Saturn's north pole.
According to a new study by a Canadian-led team of researchers, the atmospheric phenomena known as STEVE is not an…