Over the last decade, humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) have stabilized after a period of huge growth. Average ...

B lue Origin's latest private mission to space made bigger headlines than usual — but the buzz surrounding the flight had ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk, Grist explains. New research, published in Nature ...

Newly published images suggest that an unknown structure is trailing behind the Kosmos 482 probe on its descent to Earth. It ...

But it was a mystery how hailstones could form that were heavy enough to fall hundreds of kilometers into the atmosphere. To explain why ammonia is missing from parts of Jupiter's atmosphere ...

The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen ... are created by thunderstorm clouds located around 40 miles (64 kilometers) beneath Jupiter’s cloud tops. The thunderstorm clouds ...

The explosion sent a towering plume of ash and gas over 31 miles (50 kilometers) into the atmosphere, punching far above where commercial jets cruise and most weather lives. But what really blew ...

This led to proposals that water and ammonia ice must form hailstones that fall out of the atmosphere and remove the ammonia. But it was a mystery how hailstones could form that were heavy enough to ...