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 ...

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.

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

And scientists don't know what impact that's going to have on the atmosphere yet, but if they're disintegrating, they're going to leave a stream of pollutants in their wake.

image: The figures show the wind, temperature, and surface-atmosphere friction on a planet 1.45 times the size of the Earth in a 1-day orbit around an M dwarf.

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%.