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

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

With rising greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is occurring at rates much faster than anticipated, causing intense and ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

Earth Day was recently celebrated on Tuesday, April 22, an annual effort at environmental awareness, which started in April of 1970. Earth Day is more than just taking pretty pictures and posting them ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Scientists urged caution against raising hopes about the existence of actual living organisms beyond Earth, but said they ...

New molecules discovered on a faraway exoplanet have given scientists the “strongest evidence yet" that life may exist beyond ...