Using primitive meteorites called chondrites as their models, earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have performed outgassing calculations and shown that the early Earth ...

A NASA sounding rocket soared high from a launchpad in Norway on Wednesday morning in a decades-old quest to understand the cause of a persistent dense patch of upper atmosphere on Earth’s sun-facing ...

Neutrinos are some of nature’s most elusive particles. One hundred trillion fly through your body every second, but each one has only a tiny chance of jostling one of your atoms, a consequence of the ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

Titan's dense atmosphere, primarily nitrogen with approximately 5% methane, is surprisingly persistent despite the moon's low mass, posing a significant scientific question regarding its longevity.

NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire), fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere following six successful missions involving controlled ...

Sometimes science needs to go big. From telescopes spanning the globe to particle accelerators that would take over 24 hours ...

Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of ...