Atmosphere

The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere.

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The mystery of how the outer-atmosphere of the Sun can be hotter than its surface may have finally been cracked. Researchers have achieved a breakthrough by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale Alfvén waves in the Sun's corona - waves we've searched for since their prediction in 1942

CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024

Phosphine Discovered In A Brown Dwarf's Atmosphere For The First Time

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf - EurekAlert!

Phosphine found in brown dwarf’s atmosphere

Webb Detects Biosignature Gas Phosphine in Atmosphere of Ancient Brown Dwarf

Constraining Proxima b’s Atmosphere, Orbit, and Albedo with RISTRETTO

Webb spots first hints of atmosphere on a potentially habitable world

Webb Reveals Fascinating Features in Saturn's Atmosphere

Icy planetesimal with high nitrogen and water content discovered in white dwarf's atmosphere

'The whole forest has changed': Amazon trees are getting fatter due to rising CO2 in the atmosphere

ESA spacecraft sees a kaleidoscope of color in Mars' atmosphere | Space photo of the day for Sept. 26, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope Finds Atmosphere on Lava Planet TOI-561 b

70 years ago today, a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up, because mankind was “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.”

Webb Telescope Spots Possible Signs of Atmosphere on “Goldilocks” Exoplanet

NASA’s Webb Just Revealed Something Astonishing in Saturn’s Atmosphere

James Webb Space Telescope reveals dark beads and lopsided star patterns in Saturn's atmosphere - EurekAlert!

James Webb Space Telescope reveals dark beads and lopsided star patterns in Saturn's atmosphere

Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today