NASA researchers suggest a surprising discovery on planet Mercury: a diamond layer approximately 10 miles thick, adding to ...

Future space missions are being designed to search remotely for terrestrial planets around other stars. The layers of gases surrounding the surface of a planet make up what is known as an atmosphere.

These exoplanets, orbiting different stars, are shedding their outer layers into space ... and fortuitous opportunity to ...

Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer. Located roughly 3,000 kilometers down, this zone sits just above the boundary between the planet's molten outer core and its ...