The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

The Moon may not have much of an atmosphere, mostly because of its weak gravitational field (whether it had a substantial atmosphere billions of years ago is debatable). But it is thought to presently ...

It’s been an unsettled winter in the atmosphere above Antarctica. About 30 kilometers above the continent’s icy surface, in the layer known as the stratosphere, a series of warming events took place ...

The air high above Earth has been moving in the opposite direction of the world below it. While the planet’s surface and lower atmosphere keep warming, the stratosphere, the layer that begins about 11 ...

There are a lot of different satellites orbiting the Earth. This shouldn't come as a surprise since humanity has been putting them up there ever since Sputnik launched in 1957. The United Nations ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced it will dispose of 100 Starlink satellites over the next six months, after it discovered a design flaw that may cause them to fail. Rather than risk posing a threat to ...

In conducting its mission to explore the limits of speed and even venture above the atmosphere to the edge of space, the X-15 program would provide valuable data for use in solving the problems to be ...

July 31 (UPI) --The debris from a Chinese rocket re-entered the atmosphere above the Indian Ocean, days after officials said the space junk was uncontrollably falling back to Earth. The U.S. Space ...

Learn about the atmosphere, its five distinct layers, and why this gaseous shield is essential for life. Explore facts about Earth’s air and its composition. The planet Earth is covered by a huge ...