Saturn's moon Titan looks uncannily like Earth: clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, seas, coastlines, dunes, and seasons. Then you ...

Imagine a world where the clouds are made of metal and liquid rubies and sapphires rain down from the sky. A new study shows that, on the hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-121 b, this could be the reality.

In the pantheon of weird exoplanets, one of the strangest has to be WASP-121 b. It’s so close to its star that not only is its surface temperature estimated to be up to an unimaginable 4,600 degrees ...

The more we learn about climate systems, the more we realize that we are barely scratching the surface. Recent studies have revealed intricate links between seemingly unrelated phenomena, such as how ...

Anthropogenic aerosols, tiny solid and liquid air pollution particles, have masked a fraction of global warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Climate researchers have known for decades ...

Clouds come in myriad shapes, sizes and types, which control their effects on climate. New research shows that splintering of frozen liquid droplets to form ice shards inside Southern Ocean clouds ...