From the surface, Earth looks like a relatively ordinary rocky planet, wrapped in clouds and a thin blue atmosphere. A new ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear nights, we can even see their traces as shooting stars. Trapped in layers of ...

Learn how atmospheric rivers form, why they cause mega-storms and flooding, and what new science reveals about their growing ...

If you have seen a bright light streak across the sky, you have likely seen a meteor. Meteors are rocks from space that hit Earth's atmosphere and are commonly referred to as falling stars or shooting ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal tides ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community stated that clearly in the 2020 Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 ...

Between 30 and 60 miles above Earth’s surface lies a largely unstudied stretch of the atmosphere. It’s too high for airplanes and weather balloons, too low for satellites and nearly impossible to ...