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

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

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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 ...

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, ...

Pluto’s atmosphere is hard to observe from Earth. It can only be studied when Pluto passes in front of a distant star, allowing astronomers to see the effect the atmosphere has on starlight. When this ...

May 21, 2026 Jupiter’s storms aren’t just gigantic — they may unleash lightning far more powerful than anything on Earth. Using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists discovered that some lightning bolts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saturn's moon Titan belongs to a very select club within the solar system. It is one of only four "terrestrial" planets or moons—those with solid bodies, as opposed to those made largely of gas, like ...