A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

The technique is pretty straightforward and potentially very cheap, but will need to be scaled up significantly to make a difference.

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets.

Scientists have discovered how to turn common minerals into materials that spontaneously remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the lab, the materials pull CO2 from the air thousands ...

Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living ...

Scientists at Stanford University developed carbon capture technique they say is more practical and cost-effective ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.