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, published in Science Advances, draws on decades of weather balloon ...

We live in the troposphere and that's where weather happens. It extends from the surface of the Earth to about 7 miles up. The 7 mile cap is an average since colder locations like the poles have a ...

Venus has a rich and complicated atmosphere – the densest of all the rocky planets – which is the key to understanding the planet itself. Venus Express, designed to perform an extensive investigation ...

Thirty years ago, scientists were thrilled just to detect exoplanets. Then they learned to measure their temperatures, wind speeds, and chemical makeup. Now, for the first time ever, astrophysicists ...

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, ...

Mars continues to astonish scientists with a new set of images that reveal the Red Planet’s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Captured by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, these high-resolution views ...

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, ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

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 ...