Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

The Earth's atmosphere has strengthened its ability to remove air pollutants, including the potent climate-warming gas methane, according to research published in Nature Communications.

Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

NASA's Rover found ripples in Martian rock that resemble the wave patterns on a sandy lake bed on Earth. The ripples could only have come from liquid water.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard is developing a plane powered by liquid hydrogen after a much-hyped flight in 2015 ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... and launch large amounts of water vapor into the air. These events could cause a global ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere that could last for years.

However, an understanding of the atmosphere shows ... air for developing storms. More water vapor typically means heavy rain and snow rates.Of all regions on Earth's surface, the Arctic is warming ...