There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble ...

Even in space, what goes up sometimes comes back down: spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other bits of space debris ...

The invisible forces erupting from our Sun create a chaotic environment extending far beyond what most people imagine. Space ...

For decades, satellites passing over Earth's north and south poles have experienced a flow of ions from the upper atmosphere into space. Dubbed the 'polar wind', the source of this flow had eluded ...

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

Frequent satellite launches may leave scars in the atmosphere, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A team of atmospheric scientists flew a NASA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a blistering 19-hour orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Our planet is massive, and the surrounding space is even more massive. Despite that, scientists say that the amount of space junk pollution around our planet could poison the upper atmosphere and have ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.

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A new study shows that an atmosphere was produced around the ancient Moon, 3 to 4 billion years ago, when intense volcanic eruptions spewed gases above the surface faster than they could escape to ...