A tightly orbiting planet in another star system is overturning long held ideas about what small, super heated worlds can keep around them. TOI 561 b circles its star in less than half a day and faces ...

A lava world reaching 3,200°F still holds an atmosphere, challenging what scientists thought extreme planets could survive.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen (N2) and 5 percent methane (NH4) that require radar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest signal yet that a rocky planet outside our solar system is wrapped in gas, not bare rock. Instead of a gentle blue marble, the world in ...

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky ...

Caption: This artist’s concept shows what the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b could look like based on observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories. Webb data ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol for the first time. By analyzing data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint venture ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments that ...

Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere will change the way geomagnetic storms impact Earth, with potential implications for thousands of orbiting satellites, according to new ...

Moons orbiting rogue planets, worlds flung from their parent star systems into the cold of interstellar space, could maintain liquid water on their surfaces for billions of years if wrapped in a dense ...

Satellites, including those used for GPS and communications, will face greater risks in coming decades during solar-triggered geomagnetic storms because of the effect climate pollution has on Earth’s ...