When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, studying the atmosphere was a key scientific objective. Most of what we…
One of the most fascinating things about planet Earth is the way that life shapes the Earth and the Earth…
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…
In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature's stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in…
Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter's clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise…
A new study reveals why many meteors, when they enter Earth's atmosphere, become cone-shaped as they heat up.
A unique, low-cost, and crowd-scream-sourced experiment has proven what all sci-fi movie fans know is true: In space, no one…
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…