While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

The "age of stratospheric air" measures the speed of the global transport circulation in the stratosphere, which is crucial ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

Scientists map microplastics across ocean depths, revealing their deep spread, persistence, and potential climate impact.

The effect is similar to how turbulence in Earth's atmosphere ... velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one inner plasma structure is moving towards ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...