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

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted something that should not survive in one of the harshest environments imaginable: ...

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 ...

Webb Telescope detects an atmosphere on TOI-561 b, a scorching rocky planet once thought too small and hot to hold onto its ...

According to a report published in Communications Earth & Environment on December 11, 2025, researchers at the University of ...

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 ...

Astronomers detect strong evidence of an atmosphere on ultra-hot TOI-561 b, a low-density rocky planet circling a star older ...

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 ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate courses covering topics ranging from oceanography to geomorphology to cloud physics. This course ...