By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find that Earth’s atmosphere has vanished—gone, as if erased by an invisible hand. Suddenly, ...

Whether birds in flight, mushrooms in the grass or architecture in mysterious light – this week's images show how differently ...

The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...

Why did it get an atmosphere when, for example, none of Jupiter's big moons, which are a lot closer to the sun, did? Well, in this case, distance from the sun doesn't really come into it; ...

By bne IntelliNews A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms, and ...

The Earth’s atmosphere has a number of layers. The region we know best, because it is where our weather happens, is the troposphere. This dense blanket of air 5 to 9 miles thick contains 80 ...

And without an atmosphere, Earth would have this problem too. Life-forms here would need to have evolved without the need for oxygen—and human-like visitors would need some type of space suit ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tiny, cold rock, Pluto seems almost incapable of having an atmosphere. Between its small ...

Mars atmosphere composition . According to ESA, Mars' atmosphere is composed of 95.32% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon and 0.13% oxygen.The atmospheric pressure at the surface is 6.35 ...