Researchers have developed the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) to assess which planets can maintain ...

A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth’s atmosphere some 2.4 billion years ago, but a full understanding has proven elusive. Now a new model offers ...

The Bridger Foothills (Montana, USA) wildfire event was notable due to its rapid escalation in fire activity, unique fire spread with respect to terrain and ambient wind direction, and endangerment to ...

Remote sensing of exoplanet atmospheres hinges on our ability to reliably interpret signatures of absorption, emission and scattering by atmospheric chemical species and to infer their abundances. The ...

Scientists searching for life beyond Earth have developed a new way to identify which distant planets might be able to ...

Chinese scientists have constructed a numerical model to simulate the Martian atmosphere and thus assist the country's plans to collect rock samples from the Red Planet. The model replicates the ...