Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A surprising study from Stockholm University finds high levels of carbon dioxide—rather than water—in a planet-forming disk, ...

Across the planet, storms are dumping more water in less time, turning streets into rivers and riverbanks into disaster zones. The hidden accelerant is not just carbon dioxide, but the surge of water ...

A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role in water loss.

Even under intense ultraviolet radiation from giant stars, the raw ingredients for planets can endure. Using Webb s powerful infrared eyes, astronomers examined a young star in the Lobster Nebula and ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...