NASA will fly as low as 1,000 feet over Houston to study the Earth's atmosphere and coast.

Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies a planet that ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

The atmosphere is between 5 million and 10 million times thinner than Earth's atmosphere. A very small body, far from the sun in an icy outer realm of the solar system, has mysteriously grown an ...

Across much of the northern hemisphere, extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy precipitation have increased in ...

These data come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mauna Loa Observatory, which may soon be shut down because of proposed government budget cuts ...

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

Earth’s surface is warming, but the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, and scientists now understand why.

High-resolution isotope data show that a modern-like, oxygen-rich atmosphere was not established until 410 million years ago, supporting a 2-billion-year transitional oxygenation of Earth’s surface.