The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already ...

Frequent deployment of satellites and re-entries by the rockets that deploy them might pose a risk to the Earth's upper ...

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...

A recent study has confirmed that SpaceX rockets reentering Earth's atmosphere are contributing to metal pollution, as ...

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Researchers Present Blueprint for Joint Meteorology and Atmospheric Composition Program ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space ...

A surprising observation has recently highlighted a close relationship between our planet's magnetic field and the oxygen content of its atmosphere. Over more than half a billion years, these ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

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