Atmospheric Scientist

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  Scientists Finally Identify What Drives Venus’s Fast Winds

  A new study has identified the primary force behind Venus’s extreme superrotating atmosphere: a once-per-day thermal tide driven by solar heating. Using data from Venus Express and Akatsuki along with circulation models, researchers show that this daily tide transports most of the momentum that accelerates cloud-top winds to speeds over 100 metre...

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  'Mini-Lightning': NASA Rover Detects Electrical Discharges On Mars

  NASA's Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges - what one scientist called "mini-lightning" - often associated with whirlwinds called dust devils

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  Antarctic Ozone Layer Shows Signs Of Recovery: NASA

  The Antarctic ozone layer is showing signs of recovery, reaching an annual maximum of 8.83 million square miles on September 9, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.

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  Scientists Create Earth's Most Accurate Digital Twin To Date, Could Revolutionise Climate Modelling

  The model operates at a 1.25-kilometer resolution, a massive improvement over traditional models that typically have a 40-kilometer resolution.

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  NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission Will Send Twin Probes to Uncover Mars’s Atmospheric Secrets

  NASA’s ESCAPADE mission will launch twin mini-satellites, Blue and Gold, to Mars aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn. The probes will study how solar wind stripped away Mars’s atmosphere and water, helping scientists understand the Red Planet’s lost climate and its transformation into the dry world we see today.

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  Scientists Find Water And Oil Mixing On Saturn's Moon During Simulation, Defying Rules Of Chemistry

  Researchers simulated Titan's atmosphere and surface conditions in laboratory experiments.

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  Can Amazon Rainforest Survive Future? Scientists Test It With 'Time Machine'

  Deep in Brazil's Amazon, scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for the future to gauge how the biome adapts, an open question to be discussed at the COP30

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  Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Sun’s Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere Puzzle

  Scientists using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have detected Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona, potentially solving the long-standing mystery of its extreme heat and helping refine models of solar and stellar energy transfer.

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  NASA’s JWST Produces First-Ever 3D Map of Distant Planet WASP-18b

  NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has created the first-ever 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet, revealing the extreme conditions on WASP-18b, an “ultra-hot Jupiter” located 400 light-years away. Using infrared eclipse mapping, scientists discovered a scorching hotspot over 2,700 °C where water molecules are breaking apart. This groundbreaki...

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  Mysterious 1950s Sky Flashes Re-Examined in New Astronomical Study

  Thousands of unexplained sky flashes captured in 1950s Palomar Observatory photos are being reanalysed. Scientists suspect they may have resulted from sunlight reflecting off early satellites or atmospheric changes after nuclear tests, which increased flash rates by up to 68%. Still, photographic artifacts remain a possible explanation.

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  Scientists Detect Hidden Magnetic Waves That Could Explain the Sun’s Mysterious Heat

  For the first time, scientists have directly observed twisting Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona using the Inouye Solar Telescope. The discovery could explain why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than its surface, offering key insights into solar energy transfer and space weather prediction.

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  Scientists Find Rare Meteorites In China's Chang'e-6 Moon Samples

  Chang'e 6 made history in 2024, by bringing back 1,935.3 grams of lunar samples from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin.

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  Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Soars to 424PPM, Marking Biggest Yearly Jump Ever

  The WMO reports Earth’s atmospheric CO₂ reached 422.8 ppm in 2024 — the biggest annual rise ever recorded. Driven by fossil-fuel emissions, wildfires, and weakening carbon sinks, the surge intensifies global warming. Scientists warn that delayed emission cuts could entrench irreversible changes in weather, ecosystems, and sea levels.

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  James Webb Space Telescope Detects Phosphine on Brown Dwarf Wolf 1130C

  Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected phosphine gas in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, about 54 light-years away. The finding suggests phosphine can form in extreme, non-biological environments, challenging its status as a potential biomarker and reshaping how scientists search for alien life.

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  Rubin Observatory Adopts New AI Algorithm to Enhance Cosmic Imaging

  Scientists have developed ImageMM, an algorithm tested on Hawaii’s Subaru Telescope and soon to be used at the Rubin Observatory. The system reduces atmospheric blur, producing sharper images for studying galaxies and dark matter. Researchers believe the technique could make ground-based astronomy nearly as precise as space telescopes