A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new ...

Dating these rocks gives scientists evidence of when oxygen first built up in the atmosphere. Fossils Life processes can change the composition of the atmosphere. Fossils can tell scientists what ...

That's because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up. Part of ...

And as this region cools down, it also contracts, leaving satellites orbiting in areas where the atmosphere is less dense. This change in density means less of an atmospheric drag on satellites – and ...

Natural processes and human activity have changed the atmosphere, and continue to change it today.

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...