When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

The same molecule heating Earth’s surface is cooling the layers above it at a startling rate. A study published in Nature ...

In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a ...

Visit a Missouri hangar café for breakfast served right beside a rural airstrip, offering fresh plates and scenic runway ...

A mysterious weather anomaly on Venus has finally been explained, providing new insight into the weather volatility of other ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has uncovered a detailed mechanism through which intense storms ...

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical ...

A gradual dimming and brightening when a star passed behind it suggested the mini-Pluto was wrapped in a thin layer of air. By Kenneth Chang A small world about 300 miles wide and 3.5 billion miles ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered a thin atmosphere around a small celestial body beyond Neptune. This trans-Neptunian object is much smaller than what was previously thought possible to sustain an ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind one of climate change’s strangest fingerprints: while Earth’s surface ...