Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about 110 light-years from Earth. Credit: Space.com / animations courtesy: ...

A cartoon journey envisions what it would take to endure a full day in orbit. The animated story captures both the wonder and the challenges of life beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

New "unprecedented" animations of the Earth show how the planet's surface has shifted and changed over the past 100 million years. These animations are the most detailed view of the history of Earth's ...

55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s formation. Astronomers say that they have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect for the first ...

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, ...

The Great Oxygenation Event, which occurred around 2.4 billion years ago, was one of the biggest transformations of our planet. Before it, there was practically no oxygen in the atmosphere; after, ...

On September 5, 2020, California's Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing its own weather system. The fire's ...