Hunga Tonga volcano, photographed during its eruption on 14-15 January 2022 Credit: Tonga Geological Services / ZUMA Press / Zuma / RÉA (Courtesy of Dr Mark Schoeberl)Widely believed to be…
New observations of Jupiter's Great Red Spot have revealed that the planet's atmosphere above and around the infamous storm is surprisingly interesting and active. This graphic shows the region observed…
9 Using the joint James Webb Space Telescope of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), a group of scientists discovered a variety of previously…
Studies of marine shale and isotopic data from the period of the Great Oxidation Event reveal dynamic oxygen fluctuations in Earth's early atmosphere and oceans, highlighting the protracted and complex…
An artist's concept of WASP-107 b shows turbulent atmospheric mixing in the planet's gaseous envelope. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins UniversityJames Webb Space Telescope The data reveal that WASP-107 b…
Two million years ago, the solar system encountered a dense interstellar cloud that may have significantly affected Earth's climate by compressing the heliosphere and exposing the planet to high levels…
The warm gas giant WASP-107 b, known for its unusually low density and moderate temperature, may have its bloated atmosphere due to tidal heating that warms its interior more than…
Venus is dry today thanks to the loss of water to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines with an electron, producing fast H…