Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere rich with carbon and helium, which is unexpected on this hot planet ...

"...an enhanced flux of millimeters scale particles from 3I/ATLAS could be collected by a space experiment on a satellite or ...

A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in Earth atmosphere.

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

Particles that escaped Earth’s atmosphere accumulated on the lunar surface over billions of years. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

The magic of Christmas could soon manifest in the sky, with northern lights display possible in several U.S. states amid the ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

Earth’s surface bears the scars of obvious catastrophes, from dinosaur-killing craters to lava fields, but a growing body of ...