The powerful vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Hubble discovered ...

An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.

A project led by the University of Washington to better understand our atmosphere's complexity is a finalist for NASA's next generation of Earth-observing satellites. STRIVE seeks to better understand ...

Astronomers with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered something fascinating about SIMP 0136, a gigantic, free-floating planetary object. While most bodies orbit around a star, SIMP ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive storms, revealing a hidden electrical world few ever witness from Earth.

STRIVE proposes to launch a satellite that takes a sideways view of Earth’s atmosphere, at what is sometimes called “Earth’s limb.” This photo of Earth’s limb was taken Feb. 12, 2020, from the ...