Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...

Researchers are reporting the first results of CERN's CLOUD experiment, designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols -- tiny liquid or solid particles suspended ...

Our nearest planetary neighbor may be more friendly to life than we previously thought. Venus has long been assumed to be uninhabitable: its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere is swirling with yellow ...

Measurements in a forest reveal a previously unknown atmospheric oxidant that acts as a source of sulphuric acid — one of the main precursors for the formation and growth of aerosol particles and ...

FRANKFURT. The Asian monsoon transports enormous amounts of air from atmospheric layers close to Earth’s surface to a height of around 15 kilometres. Like in a gigantic elevator, human-induced ...