Wildfire smoke is no longer just a short‑lived air quality problem drifting over cities for a few hazy days. New research ...

What Are Atmospheric Aerosols Exactly Aerosols refer to fine solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where ...

Spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere are leaving behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand if that affects the climate. One risk is that these particles may spark rainbow-colored ...

Earth keeps getting warmer because more energy from sunlight stays trapped in the climate system. Scientists refer to this as ...

The ground stations of the European research infrastructure ACTRIS play an important role in calibrating the data from the EarthCARE satellite: they have been established and expanded in recent years ...

It used to be thought that there were more volatiles than expected in lunar soil because they escaped Earth before it had a ...

Observations by a NASA suborbital rocket confirmed a 60-year-old hypothesis about a driver of the planet's polar wind. Reading time 3 minutes A NASA rocket launched from near the North Pole has ...

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years.

A vibrant aurora display revealing how ionized particles from the sun excite oxygen and nitrogen in different atmosphere layers, creating iconic green and red aurora colors. Auroras, known for their ...

MINNEAPOLIS — From Seattle in the Northwest, to across the world in Spain, and right back in Minnesota, the human collective looked north for a few nights as a massive light show performed for one of ...