Atmospheres

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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Red Dwarf Stars Might Be Able to Hold Onto Their Atmospheres After All

Webb allows researchers to use new method of finding atmospheres in distant planets

Exoplanets Could be Hiding Their Atmospheres

Looking for atmospheres in the ultimate quest for extraterrestrial life

Escaping Atmospheres: Unraveling the Hydrodynamic Mysteries of Exoplanets

Stars give tiny planets a gravitational 'squeeze' to strip away their atmospheres

Measuring the Atmospheres of Other Worlds to See if There are Enough Nutrients for Life

Finding Atmospheres on Red Dwarf Planets Will Take Hundreds of Hours of Webb Time

Moons around Uranus may suddenly develop atmospheres in the spring

NASA scientists think some planets are shrinking because powerful radiation from their cores is pushing away their atmospheres

New findings show that JWST could strongly detect certain gasses associated with a habitable planet & signs of past, present, or technologically advanced life in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets around M dwarf stars.

X-Ray-Luminous Supernovae Pose Threat to Earth-Like Planetary Atmospheres, Study Says

James Webb Space Telescope confirms giant planet atmospheres vary widely

JWST confirms giant planet atmospheres vary widely

A New Method to Detect Exoplanet Atmospheres with Webb

Trace Gas Detection Sheds New Light on Atmospheres of Jupiter and Its Volcanic Moon Io

James Webb Space Telescope reveals alien planet's atmosphere like never before

Mars' clouds are strangely Earth-like, despite wildly different atmospheres

How JWST could find signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres

An Unexpected Metal Was Detected Drifiting High Up in Two Alien Atmospheres