New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

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Earth’s rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Compare that to Earth, where the mass-fraction of water is just 0.02%. Yet if TOI-152b had been reduced by stellar radiation, there would be no water or atmosphere left at all. Instead ...