Life on other planets? Maybe. Brown, gunky stuff on other planets? Yes. A UA research team has discovered that bombarding a nitrogen-rich gas mixture, designed to mimic the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

The Gordon Bell Climate Prize-winning team reached a landmark this year by being the first team ever to develop a Full Earth Simulation at 1 km (extremely high) Resolution. St. Louis, MO, November 20, ...

What would happen if (when?) a 310-mile-wide asteroid collides with Earth? That’s the fun question behind the simulation in the video below. And the answer is ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Advances In Atmospheric Sciences, researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric ...

A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has found evidence that billions of years ago, the Earth's oceans were green. In ...

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Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any ...

SAN DIEGO — Just steps from the waves at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SOARS, short for Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator, sits inside a decades-old redwood structure ...

On a rooftop in downtown Atlanta, a group of scientists are cooking up alien atmospheres. Their results will help astronomers understand the data that NASA's Juno spacecraft will send back from ...