The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Weather forecast for Neptune: After sunny weather for the past few Earth years, we’ll see increasingly more clouds over the next few years. In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft provided the first ...

Neptune receives a tiny fraction of the sunlight that strikes Earth, yet somehow, that’s enough to transform the clouds of this faraway world. The main driver of cloud formation is generally the ...

The James Webb Telescope has revealed fierce auroras, storms, and unchanging sand-like clouds on the rogue planet SIMP-0136.

There’s something undeniably magical about standing atop a mountain and gazing out over a thick blanket of clouds. And in the Bay Area, it’s a sight we’re lucky enough to experience frequently, at ...

The atmosphere is a large-scale dissemination route for bacteria carrying antibiotic-resistance genes. A research team has shown that these genes can be transported by clouds. The atmosphere is a ...

For over a century, we’ve turned to technology in an attempt to control the weather. Are today’s geoengineering proposals any better? By Bill Gourgey Published Apr 29, 2024 9:53 AM EDT Get the Popular ...