atmosphere
noun
the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air.
atmospheres
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pluralof atmosphere.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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By revealing how complex alien atmospheres can be understood from faint changes in light, this new approach could help scientists take another step toward answering that question.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The distortion provides new evidence of how extreme temperatures and powerful winds reshape the atmospheres of distant planets.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Successfully applying transmission strings to WASP-17b demonstrates that the technique could be used to study the atmospheres of many other exoplanets.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
One of the driving questions that the James Webb Space Telescope is being used to answer is whether planets orbiting stars much smaller than the sun have atmospheres.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In five minutes it leaked so much it pressurized the whole airlock to 1.2 atmospheres.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
