Tag: Planet

Cambridge, MA, May 17th, 2022— The evolution of the most innovative square mile on the planet: the endless cycles of ...

New research has identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Ocean — one ...

Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than ...

The 2021 wildfire season broke records globally, leaving land charred from California to Siberia. The risk of fire is growing, ...

The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets have been ...

A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System’s history could help scientists reconstruct ...

The collective activity of life—all of the microbes, plants, and animals—have changed planet Earth. Credit: University of Rochester illustration / ...

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb 15, 2022 – A new dataset released by a New York University Tandon School of Engineering ...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of ...

A new study from the University of Warwick demonstrates the impact of passing stars, misaligned binary stars and passing gas ...

Orono, Maine — Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point ...

A new study of the climate impacts of raising animals for food concludes that phasing out all animal agriculture has ...

An Australian conservation scientist unafraid to go out on a limb – or crawl through thorny vines, or trek remote ...

A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view ...

Imagine being in a place where the winds are so strong that they move at the speed of sound. That’s ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a ...

Ultra-short-period planets are small, compact worlds that whip around their stars at close range, completing an orbit — and a ...

As far as extrasolar planets go, ‘GJ 367 b’ is a featherweight. With half the mass of Earth, the newly ...

One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of ...

A compositional link between planets and their respective host star has long been assumed in astronomy. For the first time ...