WASHINGTON (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 wedding cake ...

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 ...

Jupiter may be the bully planet of our solar system because it’s the most massive planet, but it’s actually a runt compared to many of the giant planets found around other stars. These alien worlds, ...

BOULDER, Colo. — The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in – where all the weather happens. The stratosphere is the layer right above that. In the 1990s, scientists realized that ...

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, two new studies present an in-depth analysis of the planet Beta Pictoris b's atmosphere using interferometry with the Very Large Telescope ...

MR. CAVE'S book is a welcome addition to the valuable contributions of amateurs to the common stock of scientific knowledge, and is the more welcome as the first book on this special subject. The ...

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 ...

Astronomers have developed a new way to capture all the exquisite 'layer-cake' details of a brown dwarf's cloud structure. Because brown dwarfs are similar to super-Jupiters, this innovative technique ...

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Jupiter may be the bully planet of our solar system because it’s the most massive planet, but it’s actually a runt compared to many of the giant planets found around other stars.