Artist’s concept of 2MASS J22081363+2921215, a nearby brown dwarf. Though only roughly 115 light-years away, the brown dwarf is too distant for any atmospheric features to be photographed. Instead, ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is a complex and dynamic envelope comprised primarily of nitrogen and oxygen, with trace gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour and ozone playing outsized roles in ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a ...

Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth's atmosphere, a new international study shows. The research draws on decades of observations to quantify that warming ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...

The balloon-based EXCITE mission measures infrared phase curves of hot Jupiter exoplanets to map temperature and atmospheric composition from long-duration Antarctic flights.

Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth’s atmosphere, a new international study shows. The research, published in Science Advances, draws on decades of weather balloon ...