Astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a young (20 Myr old) transiting exoplanet and found it to be unusually clear and puffy. By analyzing the planet's atmospheric features, they were able ...

Frank Shatz talks to Joel S. Levine, a retired NASA scientist who once helped save the Declaration of Independence and other historical documents.

Astriking discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the bizarre and fascinating nature of the exoplanet ...

Not everything discovered about the composition of WASP-76 b was so expected, however. The team discovered that certain elements in the atmosphere of Wasp-76 b appeared to be "depleted." ...

If you want to look into the early Earth, a key piece of the puzzle is the air of our planet’s ancient skies. Today, for instance, Earth’s atmosphere is filled with gases that support the ...

Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.

Scientists determine for the first time the chemical composition of a type of red giant star with more carbon than oxygen in its atmosphere by SpaceRef January 18, 2010 Click to share on X (Opens ...

January’s Tonga eruption sent an unusually large amount of water vapor high into Earth’s atmosphere and could temporarily influence our planet’s surface temperature.

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 ...

Our planet’s moon has a long history of violence, which scientists recently realized has contributed to the development of a very thin and wispy atmosphere called an exosphere. For many years, ...

The Hunga eruption contributed about 150 metric megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere — an amount so high that it raised global levels of stratospheric water vapor by about 10%.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Composition of the Upper Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 101 No. 12 (September 1909), p. 190 doi:10.1038 ...