When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

A new study has revealed how phosphorus, a nutrient essential for photosynthesis, surged into ancient oceans and started ...

Reanalysis of NASA's Pioneer Venus mission data reveals that Earth's twin contains 62% water in hydrated compounds.

"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can." Self-lofting devices propelled by sunlight have been tested for the first time in ...

Understanding atmospheric pressure is vital, newsroom meteorologist Justin Ballard said, because those giant H’s and L’s representing high and low air pressure systems on a weather map are meaningless ...

Quantum theory of the interaction of radiation with matter, spectral line shapes, widths, and pressure shifts for atmospheric molecules. Theoretical and experimental studies of remote sensing of the ...