Microplastics are floating through the atmosphere and spreading across the globe, but their true origins have been ...
A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) helps nourish aquatic ecosystems and is part of the reason Europe has ...
Together, the two exhibitions 'trace our evolving understanding of the weather, from mythology and witchcraft to science and ...
Researchers used the world's fastest supercomputer for open science to train an artificial intelligence model that captures ...
A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...
Just 12 light-years from Earth, the closest known super-Jupiter has thrown a wrench into atmospheric science. New ...
Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new ...
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From lazy ripples to towering breakers, the mechanics of ocean waves should vary widely from one planet to another, according ...
Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...
A vast ocean current encircling Antarctica—more powerful than all the world’s rivers combined—played a surprisingly complex role in shaping Earth’s climate.