5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (789+ words) Venus’ atmosphere is, for the most part, very unfriendly for life. Its clouds are full of droplets of sulfuric acid, toxic for life as we know it. But, as some other studies have hinted at, perhaps it’s not too toxic…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (708+ words) How is that possible? A new study, led by researchers at Stanford University in California, suggests an explanation. The researchers said on August 25, 2026, that gases slowly escaping from below the planets’ surfaces might replenish the gases that have been lost....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (510+ words) When searching for possible signs of alien life on exoplanets, scientists tend to focus on atmospheres that might be earthlike. That is, atmospheres dominated by nitrogen, oxygen or even carbon dioxide. But there’s another possibility that has been largely overlooked....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (639+ words) Only one spacecraft from Earth has ever visited Pluto. That was New Horizons in 2015. It found that Pluto has an extremely thin, but hazy, atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen. But we knew before New Horizons that Pluto’s atmosphere should thicken…...