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

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

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

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 ...

Long-anticipated findings confirm eclipses create a ripple effect in Earth's atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. College ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first-of-its-kind complement of instruments dubbed the ‘space storm hunter’ hangs out in its new location outside the International Space Station in this image taken by on of the Station’s ...

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, ...

Satellite imagery showed an atmospheric river from space as three states brace for 4-plus inches of rain later this week. Multiple atmospheric rivers have hit California this winter, and another is on ...