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 ...

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 ...

New research has revealed how temperatures in Neptune's atmosphere have unexpectedly fluctuated over the past two decades. New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has ...

Although we are learning more than ever before about the other planets in our solar system, there are still plenty of mysteries to unwind. One open question is why exactly the atmosphere of gas giants ...

New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have unexpectedly fluctuated over the past two decades. The study, published ...

Neptune’s atmospheric temperature is on an unexpected roller-coaster ride, and it could take decades for scientists to piece together what’s happening at the distant planet. Each Neptune year lasts ...

An artistic rendering of the ultra-hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-18b. (Image credit: Keith Miller/Caltech/IPAC) There’s an intriguing exoplanet out there—400 light-years out there—that is so ...

Atmospheric rivers—narrow bands of concentrated water vapor transported polewards from the tropics—don't just deliver a deluge of rainfall, but play a key role in driving extreme heat events and ...

Although the James Webb Space Telescope was built primarily for looking back at the earliest and most distant galaxies, it can also be used for a host of other scientific observations — including ...