The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

But there are many locations on the planet that restrict fly overs, and the cost for regular over-flights by aircraft adds up quickly. Albedo's first big test may come within the next week and the ...

An idea that calls for the creation of inflatable starshades for telescopes has been recognized by NASA as part of the ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

The planet glows brightly at magnitude –0.2 and ... altering the shape and albedo (reflectivity) of the feature. Mars is now 11” wide and roughly 0.9 astronomical unit from Earth.

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq miles (1 ...

This ratio of reflected light is called albedo. For comparison, our watery planet bounces about three-tenths of incoming rays back into space. Venus has an even higher albedo than Earth ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

The disappearance of sea ice changes the surface albedo, i.e. the reflectivity of ... Despite all the different influences in our planet's climate system, it is interesting to note that the ...