Findings may fill gap for climate change, atmospheric research beyond tropical regions. According to a new study by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL),…
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Hubble Space Telescope archival observations of 25 hot Jupiters have been analyzed by an international team of astronomers, enabling them to answer five open questions…
A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the…
According to recent research, larger and more intense wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are changing the seasonal rhythm of air pollution and triggering an increase…
The Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area for the year on October 7, 2021, and ranks as the 13th largest since 1979. Scientists from…
Follow the pollen. Records from past plant life tell the real story of global temperatures, according to research from a climate scientist at Washington University…
Multi-institutional research team finds declining nitrogen availability in a nitrogen-rich world. Since the mid-20th century, research and discussion have focused on the negative effects of…
The findings do not counter the established science of climate change but highlight how the accounting of the amount of carbon withdrawn by plants and…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds…
March 17, 2022. (Click image for wide, high-resolution view.) Long-lasting, icy cirrus clouds filled with Saharan dust covered many parts of the continent in March.…
Electrons in Earth’s radiation belts, show as yellow and red cross-sections, typically spiral back and forth, bouncing between the Poles. However, disturbances to the belts…
This looping video shows a series of GOES-17 satellite images that caught an umbrella cloud generated by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai…
This picture illustrates a scene from northern Laurentia (North America) in the period a few weeks after the Chicxulub impact showing the onset of freezing…
Around 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen began building up in the atmosphere, eventually reaching the life-sustaining levels we breathe today. A new hypothesis proposed by…
A fresh analysis of the possible cooling effect of the sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January 2022…
Surface of Venus, observed by NASA’s Magellan (Magalhães) spacecraft, which mapped the entire surface of the planet using radar in the early 1990s. Evidence of…
Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth’s climate to fight global warming. A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month,…
This is an artist’s concept of a glow surrounding a drone at Mars during flight. The glow, exaggerated for visibility, might happen if the drone’s…
Ironstones deposited on the seafloor nearly two billion years ago now occur as rocky outcrops along the lakeshore of Tu Nedhé (Northwest Territories, Canada). Credit:…
This is an artist’s concept of a glow surrounding a drone at Mars during flight. The glow, exaggerated for visibility, might happen if the drone’s…