Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

We call it a Goldilocks planet because the Earth’s temperature, like the porridge in the Goldilocks fairy tale, is not too hot and not too cold. This is because the Earth has an atmosphere which ...

Previously considered an airless ball, an Earth-sized world orbiting a red dwarf some 40 light-years away may have an atmosphere after all. New observations of planet ... a narrow band of spectral ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

Their intensity was similar to the massive bands of radiation found around Jupiter. As the largest planet in our solar ...

Trappist-1 b, the innermost planet in the Trappist-1 ... the dayside thermal flux within two infrared bands, which proved insufficient to decisively distinguish between an airless surface and a ...

The findings, published March 3 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, also revealed that the celestial object possesses a complex, layered atmosphere ... "[I]t's not a planet in the traditional ...

By comparing data between sources, the researchers were able to follow the flow of ammonia as it was pushed during downdrafts from the outer reaches of the planet's atmosphere to levels deep below ...