The gas is an essential part of life on Earth—but right now we have too much of a good thing. Cineca in Bologna, Italy, is a computing center with one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected an unusually carbon dioxide rich disk around the young star XUE 10, revealing scarce water vapor where planets may form and challenging ...

What can a protoplanetary disk comprised of carbon dioxide teach scientists about a solar system’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

While atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are higher than ever before, an estimated 2.5 billion additional people are expected to integrate into urban areas worldwide by 2050, making reduced urban ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth.

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory The chart shows monthly numbers of carbon dioxide molecules per million molecules of dry air. Because of seasonal ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...