GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling a sunlike star 57 ...

NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere ...

The object lies in the Kuiper Belt and is 500km wide. And astronomers found an atmosphere round it.

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The finding offers fresh insight into our solar system’s farthest, coldest objects in a region known as the Kuiper Belt.

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Mark Herz: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. The amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is increasing faster than ever. One global monitor showed that peak to peak from 2022 to 2024, we saw the ...

Our atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with traces of other things like water and carbon dioxide. It's an odd mix compared to the atmospheres of other planets. Jupiter and Saturn are ...