"The Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol became a landmark of multilateral success. Today, the ozone layer is healing ...

The Earth's protective ozone layer is healing and the hole should fully disappear in coming decades, the United Nations said ...

The booming space industry has filled the skies with rockets and satellites, but this rapid expansion comes with a hidden danger: slowing the recovery of the ozone layer. Rocket launches and burning ...

Montzka is on the frontlines of a global effort to track the health of the ozone layer, the invisible shield that protects ...

The ozone layer sits toward the bottom of the stratosphere, roughly 20 to 40 kilometers (66,000 and 131,000 feet) above the ground. It gets its name from its high concentration of ...

A Nov. 12, 2023, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) suggests that missions to the moon are impossible because a spacecraft couldn't survive the trip through a layer of Earth's atmosphere ...

As much as we should appreciate and protect the atmosphere that immediately embraces this planet, the other layers of the atmosphere are essential too and provide services we may not readily recognize ...

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 ...

An astounding gamma-ray burst, dubbed GRB 221009A, continues to amaze even though it has been more than a year since it was detected. Scientists from Italy have recently published a study that shows ...

A new NASA mission, the first to hitch a ride on a commercial communications satellite, will examine Earth's upper atmosphere to see how the boundary between Earth and space changes over time. A NASA ...