Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto. The scientists found unexpectedly large amounts of methane in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Particles blasted from the sun probably spring leaks in the lower Martian atmosphere, new research suggests. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN probe, or MAVEN, has detected ...

Scientists from NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research are providing some of the first detailed views of the mechanisms that may trigger solar flares, colossal releases of magnetic energy in the ...

A team of atmospheric scientists and oceanologists from the University of Saskatchewan, GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and Utrecht University, has found that there is more man-made ...

New Delhi: Despite the temperature rise on the surface and lower atmosphere of the Earth, the upper atmosphere has paradoxically cooled dramatically. The pattern was well known, but not the underlying ...

As Pluto edges further away from the sun, the chilly temperatures are causing its atmosphere to condense onto its barren surface as frost.

Increasing levels of greenhouse gases should warm the Earth’s surface and the lower atmosphere, and cool the upper layer. So is this happening as the theory and models predict? Satellites and weather ...