It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean -- between Antarctica and other continents -- will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long ...

While testing a new system, DARPA unintentionally created a "rocket radar" that can detect objects reentering Earth's atmosphere.

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Earth science is an all-encompassing term for the science related to the planet Earth, including the study of the solid earth (lithosphere), the atmosphere, the hydrosphere (including the oceans), and ...

ISRO announced the successful re-entry of the PSLV Orbital platform Experiment Module (POEM-4) into the Earth's atmosphere, ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

When the sun's activity is low, the Earth receives less radiation, and its outermost atmosphere temporarily ... supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force ...