Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

JWST confirms GJ 1132 b lacks an atmosphere. This challenges the habitability of planets around M-dwarfs. Astronomers often encounter conflicting results when investigating cosmic questions. This is a ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," said Silvia Protopapa, lead author, in a statement. "The Webb telescope has ...

A far riskier idea for influencing clouds to combat global warming is to try to brighten low clouds over oceans by spraying ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where ...

Early results on the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star suggest it lost its original atmosphere to space long ago, and it ...

Far beneath our feet, beyond the Earth’s rocky mantle and molten outer core, lies a dense, solid sphere of iron and other elements like carbon. This inner core is Earth’s deepest secret, shaping the ...