Atmospheric circulation governs weather and climate, but it also carries angular momentum. When winds shift or mass ...

Imagine for a moment the atmosphere is a kitchen sink. Wildfires, industry emissions, plants and microbes dump their grimy dishes into it in the form of noxious and planet-heating gases. The only ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

The air around you isn't just empty space waiting to be filled. It's a dynamic, ever-shifting system that dictates whether you wake up to sunshine or storms. Every breath you take connects you to an ...

In newly published research, CU Boulder scientists study a rocky exoplanet outside our solar system, learning more about whether and how planets maintain atmospheres In June 2019, Harvard ...

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The environmental impacts are still uncertain. Early on a Sunday morning in ...

HD 3167 b is hot enough to melt rock, yet strangely cool for a planet hugging its star. Scientists think an atmosphere may ...

The atmosphere within a group can influence the outcome of strategic decision-making, according to a new study. Researchers found that different atmospheres led to people speaking and interacting in ...

Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and scientists are scrambling to figure out why there’s been such a dramatic increase of it in the atmosphere Methane is an even ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced it will dispose of 100 Starlink satellites over the next six months, after it discovered a design flaw that may cause them to fail. Rather than risk posing a threat to ...

Reading time: 2 minutes The thin, critical envelope of the Earth’s atmosphere is just visible on this global image. In the case of the atmosphere, the “music” comes not as a sound we could hear, but ...