The tops of three coniferous trees poke out from the bottom left, as an upward view of the night sky is lit with vibrant shades of green, pink and purple shooting out in sheets as rays of light from ...

Carbon dioxide released through the burning of fossil fuels is cooling the upper atmosphere, says a group of physicists who believe that a coherent pattern of global climate change in Earth's upper ...

Figure 3: Temporal variation of carbon at pressure level Z = −6(altitude ∼ 101 km) from the NCAR global mean model simulation. The ACE-FTS trends are not a true global average, because the data ...

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 ...

Social media users are sharing the claim that satellites are a myth, specifically that satellites would burn or melt in the thermosphere if they were real. This is false, as satellites do exist, and ...

An Australian-built spacecraft will be launched from the International Space Station for the first time next year, as researchers from three Australian universities get ready to make history. The ...

The atmospheric temperature spike, which was caused by successive geomagnetic storms, suggests the "solar maximum" is fast approaching. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...