Take a moment to breathe in the air around you and really appreciate it, because all that oxygen-rich air will only be around ...

The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

JWST observations of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d reveal a lack of a substantial, Earth-like atmosphere, as indicated by a "flat" spectral signature lacking typical atmospheric molecule fingerprints (e.g., ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

Researchers have detected a thick atmosphere around a planet called 55 Cancri e, which is twice as big as Earth and classified as a super Earth. The atmosphere of 55 Cancri e consists of carbon ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that's twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.