Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense. A photo composite ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

As global numbers of space launches relentlessly skyrocket, so, too, does the amount of dangerous space debris that reenters the atmosphere and falls back to Earth, raising the odds that, sooner or ...

Every year, thousands of discarded artificial satellites are orbiting the planet, with an increasing number falling back into Earth’s atmosphere. Most of these objects will be destroyed before they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a blistering 19-hour orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Rocket soot and vaporized satellite metals represent a massive — and largely unchecked — geoengineering experiment with massive potential planetary downsides. Space Industry’s Explosive Growth Could ...

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"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet or in the host star?'" When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

This infographic shows the multiple layers of our atmosphere, extending from the ground up into space, and how the new dataset compares in coverage to those currently available. A team led by ...