Nothing could be better for this purpose than Sir William Ramsay's book on “The Gases of the Atmosphere,” for here we have a first-hand account of modern discoveries in a connected and highly ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Earth in the Sun's Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (October 1959), p. 64 doi:10.1038 ...

By studying this system, researchers uncovered a mismatched composition of gases in the planet’s atmosphere compared ... just 366 million lightyears from Earth within the constellation Centaurus ...

on its way to us on Earth. Every gas modifies the light in its own signature manner. From the light we receive from that star system, we can infer what the composition of that atmosphere might be.

Scientists have discovered that the Earth’s atmosphere is getting better at removing air pollution, including methane, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases. This new research, published in Nature ...

“Xenon is a noble gas which, being chemically inert and having nine isotopes, is an ideal element to reveal the xenon isotopic composition in the Earth’s primary atmosphere. This also makes it an ...

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Its plunge back to Earth through the atmosphere may have generated 45.5 ... concentrations of these damaging gases and particles could quickly rise. The pollutants could thwart the recovery ...

By studying a still-forming exoplanet and its surrounding natal disk, the researchers uncovered a mismatched composition of gases in the planet's atmosphere ... years from Earth within the ...