If scientists of the 19th century could have used modern tools to study the atmosphere, they might have noticed the early ...

Explore the layers of the atmosphere depicted to scale, including the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere. Discover what occurs in each layer. This video is available ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

The ten warmest years since the early days of the industrial revolution have all occurred since 2015. Read more here.

Early Tuesday morning, a delicate, wispy cloud type rarely seen formed over western Montana, lighting up the pre-dawn sky.

Fluorescence lidar technology enables a better determination of the origin of particles in the atmosphere. The method can also visualize particle layers that were previously practically invisible ...

In the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere—where weather occurs—there spins a polar vortex that circles the globe year round, a jet stream that’s also sometimes referred to as ...

Red sprites hover between 40 and 55 miles high. Up there, the air is thin, so electric fields can spark gigantic filaments ...

NASA is making new discoveries across the solar system, including on Saturn’s moon Titan. Now, the search for life in the ...

Massive clouds of Sahara Desert dust are moving over the Atlantic toward Central and North America, with the possibility of reaching Florida and other states, including Texas, this week. The dust … ...