TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...
A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...
A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm ...
Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has ...
Recent reports from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirm that the ozone layer is on track for a full recovery, a development scientists have been tracking closely for decades. Studies, ...
The WMO Ozone Bulletin reported that the low level of ozone depletion observed in 2024 was partly due to naturally occurring ...
With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...
Forests store microplastics carried in from the air. These particles accumulate in soils through rain, leaf fall, and ...
The polar vortex itself forms because of Mars’s tilted axis, which creates seasons much like Earth’s. Each northern winter, a ...
A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of the Mars north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are ...
Found between about nine and 19 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer is a broad region of the stratosphere where the ...