For the first time, NASA’s MAVEN mission has directly observed a process called sputtering, an elusive atmospheric escape ...

A small team of planetary scientists, astrophysicists and space flight researchers affiliated with several institutions in ...

In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) ...

For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of Mars in action.

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

Last issue, we talked about how the pressure gradient force is the main driving force of wind in our atmosphere and that it ...

Here’s how it works. The solar wind is a continual stream of protons and electrons from the sun's outermost atmosphere — the corona. These charged particles breeze through the solar system at ...

Wind tunnels show what a probe descending into the atmosphere of an ice giant may have to contend with. What would it be like to fall through the clouds of our solar system's ice giants ...