Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.

NASA is preparing six new airborne science missions that will investigate some of Earth’s most complex environmental changes, ...

Science has discovered around 6,000 planets, and this is the first one, other than Earth, that is rocky and has an atmosphere ...

Methane levels in Earth’s atmosphere surged faster than ever in the early 2020s, and scientists say the reason was a surprising mix of chemistry and climate. A temporary slowdown in the atmosphere’s ...

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It's made of rock instead of gas, is around 48 light-years away, and there is also a second planet in the system. The post ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a dramatic rise in ozone. Scientists found that the lack of sunlight and moisture ...

Ice cores serve as time‐resolved archives of past atmospheric composition, preserving chemical species deposited through snow accumulation and atmospheric transport. Analyses of ions, trace elements ...

Carbonyl compounds, which include aldehydes and ketones, are ubiquitous trace gases that play a pivotal role in atmospheric chemistry. They originate from primary emissions—both anthropogenic, such as ...

Growing up in South Korea, Heesung Chong was acutely aware of air quality. “The aerosol pollution is relatively severe in South Korea. On bad days, you could feel it,” he says. The air on such days ...

A data visualization showing a map of the Earth with the northern half obscured by purple shading. The southern continents including the tip of Africa, Australia, South America, and Antarctica appear ...