Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, ...

Webb has delivered the first detailed 3D view of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering glowing auroras, heat peaks thousands of kilometers high, and the powerful influence of its tilted magnetic field ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

Researchers have detected measurable traces left in the upper atmosphere when a rocket stage burns up, finding about ten ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket burned up during an uncontrolled re-entry and left behind a detectable plume of chemical pollution in the upper atmosphere, adding fresh evidence to a growing body of research ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

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

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth’s atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The ...

Hot air holds more moisture. That’s why you can blow your hair dry even after a steamy shower. It’s also what dumps rain in the tropics and sucks water from desert soils. A new study, published in ...