Lunar-based measurements reveal Earth’s outgoing radiation is dominated by low-order spherical harmonics, providing unified global data for climate and environmental studies ...

A new article documents the global wind patterns on any planet for the first time. Remote repogramming of the MAVEN spacecraft and its NGIMS instrument enabled the data collection. The results reveal ...

Space may be the final frontier, but scientists are already assessing its patterns, a recent study from NASA shows. Space experts computed the patterns of Mars' storms by handling temperature data ...

Scientists say Earth is shifting from a merely warm planet toward what some describe as a “Hothouse” state, driven not just by smokestacks and tailpipes but by quieter feedbacks and thresholds. I see ...

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth's size. After the sun formed, the dust and gas left over from its natal cloud slowly swirled ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.