"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Right now, cold air high above Antarctica is up to 35ºC warmer than normal. Normally, strong winds and the lack of sun would ...

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

The Venus Orbiter will carry sophisticated instruments, each designed for specific tasks such as the S-band Synthetic ...

In the sun’s midday glare, a white cumulus cloud bounces light off its surface, cooling its interior. But in infrared ...

The UV Index measures the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. There are three primary types of UV radiation: ...

Have you seen the Northern Lights? They're more than just pretty colors; when you see them in Pittsburgh, there's science ...

Solar activity has been on an overall decline since the ‘80s and scientists were expecting us to plunge into a historic low ...