Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's stratosphere - an atmospheric layer that starts 7.5 miles above the surface - is shrinking. The stratosphere has gotten a ...

Swiss weather technology company Meteomatics has unveiled a multicopter drone that it says reached ...

Forty kilometers above Earth’s surface, the air has been quietly losing heat for decades. A study published in Nature Geoscience in early 2026 puts a number on that loss: roughly 2 degrees Celsius ...

Scientists recently detected low-frequency sounds in our stratosphere with no known source. Sounds that are undetectable anywhere else can often be detected in the stratosphere due to the atmospheric ...

High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere rarely noticed and even less understood, a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather ...

Although it’s the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, the stratosphere is home to a great many phenomena that directly affect what happens on the planet’s surface. Among other things, the ...

Satellites and spacecraft burning up in our atmosphere are leaving metal particles in the stratosphere — and scientists are worried it could harm our planet. About 10% of the particles floating around ...

This disruption to the wind pattern - called the "quasi-biennial oscillation" - did not have any immediate impact on weather or climate as we experience it on Earth's surface. But it does raise ...