There could be meteors traveling at close to the speed of light when they hit the atmosphere It’s no secret that planet Earth is occasionally greeted by rocks from space that either explode in the […]
For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. Massive gas giants called “hot Jupiters”—planets that orbit too close to their stars to sustain life—are […]
For The First Time, Scientists See The Sun Transfer Energy From Its Interior to Atmosphere You can’t tell from Earth, but the Sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface – it’s […]
Clouds on Jupiter rising up above the surrounding atmosphere Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter’s clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. […]
Chemical element potassium detected in an exoplanet atmosphere A team of astronomers led by AIP Ph.D. student Engin Keles detected the chemical element potassium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, for the first time with […]
Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere Astronomers at MIT, Harvard University, and elsewhere have searched a rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet for signs of an atmosphere—and found none. Atmospheres have previously been detected on planets much […]