Newborn exoplanets can have a tough life. They may form an atmosphere, but that atmosphere can be doomed. Their stars…
Thanks to the success of the Kepler mission, we know that there are multitudes of exoplanets of a type called…
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Antarctica, and has the mildest climate on the continent. In January, the…
When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, studying the atmosphere was a key scientific objective. Most of what we…
It's difficult to imagine the magnitude of storms on Jupiter. The gas giant's most visible atmospheric feature, the Great Red…
Brown dwarfs are in a tough spot. Not quite a star, not quite a planet, they occupy a place between…
Venus is unique—almost—in our Solar System because it's what's known as a "super-rotator." That means that Venus' atmosphere rotates faster…
We're waiting patiently for telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope to see first light, and one of the reasons…
Saturn's moon Titan is alone among the Solar System's moons. It's the only one with any atmosphere to speak of.…
In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature's stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in…