The powerful vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Hubble discovered ...

An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth’s atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b. The presence of a stratosphere can ...

A project led by the University of Washington to better understand our atmosphere's complexity is a finalist for NASA's next generation of Earth-observing satellites. STRIVE seeks to better understand ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new, never-before-seen feature in Jupiter's atmosphere. The high-speed jet stream, which spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide, sits ...

Astronomers with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered something fascinating about SIMP 0136, a gigantic, free-floating planetary object. While most bodies orbit around a star, SIMP ...

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Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected clouds made up of silicate, or sand, in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system. WASP-107b ...

An illustration of the Parker Space Probe approaching the sun. NASA SHARE For the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched the outermost layers of the sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently flew ...

July 29, 2003 — NASA satellite observations have provided the first evidence the rate of ozone depletion in the Earth’s upper atmosphere is decreasing. This may indicate the first stage of ozone layer ...

A NASA rocket team will soon begin its mission to study giant, hurricane-like swirls in the upper atmosphere to understand weather patterns that impact the whole planet. Called the Vorticity ...