The recently discovered asteroid COWECP5 entered Earth’s atmosphere at around 11:15 a.m. ET (17:15 C.E.T) on December 3 and created a fireball over the sky in Eastern Siberia. According to the ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble ...

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years. A ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...

Even in space, what goes up sometimes comes back down: spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other bits of space debris ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet racing around its star in under 11 hours. Despite being blasted by intense ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that's twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among ...

Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have determined in new research that the Earth’s atmosphere has ...

The planet Mercury, as imaged here with a special filter, has a detectable sodium tail. The Moon, despite being three times as far away from the Sun as Mercury and receiving only one-ninth the flux, ...