Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The JWST captured a massive ...

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth’s exosphere, capturing ultraviolet images to monitor atmospheric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet ...

Earth’s magnetic field has long been framed as a planetary force field, a protective bubble that keeps the worst of the Sun’s radiation at bay. Increasingly, though, scientists are finding that this ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission studies how solar wind removed Mars’ atmosphere, using twin spacecraft to measure atmospheric escape, magnetosphere changes, and space weather impacts.

What effects can an exoplanet orbiting close to its star have on the former’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the clearest view yet of an exoplanet losing its atmosphere into space. Using the ...