Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

The recently discovered asteroid COWECP5 entered Earth’s atmosphere at around 11:15 a.m. ET (17:15 C.E.T) on December 3 and created a fireball over the sky in Eastern Siberia. According to the ...

When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacuglar fireball that ...

Atmosphere-biosphere interactions play a vital role in regulating the exchange of energy, matter, and gases between the Earth’s atmosphere and its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These ...

The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains ...

(WAND) - 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, ...

First direct evidence shows rocket reentries can release lithium into the upper atmosphere. Measurements by Robin Wing et al. confirm pollution from a Falcon 9 reentry in February 2025.

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth ...

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that's twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among ...