LHS 475 b is a rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth that orbits very close to a small, dim star. And for the first time, researchers are able to study the planet’s atmosphere. The James Webb Space Telescope … Read More
A few years ago, five Arizona friends planned to launch a GoPro camera and a phone into the upper atmosphere in a weather balloon to capture footage of space. College students Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Paul Tarantino, and … Read More
A bolt of lightning, followed by something else. A crimson figure blinks in and out of existence high above the storm. If you saw it, you were a lucky witness to a sprite, one of the most mysterious electrical phenomena … Read More
New research shows that our Moon once had an atmosphere 3 to 4 billion years ago. It formed when volcanic eruptions rocked the ancient satellite, propelling gases above its surface too rapidly for them to seep into space. The surface of … Read More
For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn’t always this way – and scientists predict that the atmosphere will revert to one rich in methane and low in oxygen in the future. This is unlikely to … Read More
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new type of space phenomenon. For the first time, a hurricane has been detected in Earth’s upper atmosphere. The discovery of these space hurricanes was published in Nature Communications. … Read More