This extraordinary event is known as a sprite — or “farfadet” in French — one of the rarest forms of Transient Luminous ...

In early July 2025, an extraordinary event in Earth’s upper atmosphere was photographed by astronauts aboard the ...

Scientists uncover signs that Earth’s resilience to carbon emissions may be unraveling faster than climate models suggest. A ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Starlink already accounts for 40% of all the satellites ever launched, and each one releases harmful aluminum oxides when ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

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Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

That’s changing the atmosphere in ways that threaten the Earth’s protective ozone layer. Observed from Earth, these reentries look like shooting stars, blazing across the sky.

The Earth's atmosphere is far more reactive to solar activity than scientists previously believed, with the new research showing it can pulse in near-synchronicity with the sun's powerful flares.