Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's ...

A new study by a doctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, suggests global dust storms on Mars may organize the Martian atmosphere ...

Now in its 11th year, the TSaMP has consistently shown that levels of tritium, a key indicator of radioactive movement, have ...

In the first part of this series, she weighs up the idea that the Earth could really be flat… In 1838, Samuel Rowbotham, an ...

Deep inside gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, hydrogen and helium coexist under pressures millions of times greater than ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a ...

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a relatively cheap and easy fix for climate change. But as researchers take a harder look at the nuts and bolts, they’re finding considerable uncertainties, ...

A fast-expanding cloud of space waste is turning the Earth’s atmosphere into a chemistry lab.

Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere. An enclosed ...

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Researchers have discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets in our Milky Way. Of these, the sub-Neptune class, which are smaller than Neptune and more massive than Earth, are the most common. These planets ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...