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The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.
Hot air holds more moisture than cold air. That simple truth, while familiar to anyone who’s used a blow dryer or walked ...
In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...
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 ...
A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...
Scientists uncover signs that Earth’s resilience to carbon emissions may be unraveling faster than climate models suggest. A ...
Rain comes when water molecules in the atmosphere clump together to form ice crystals or water droplets that are heavy enough ...
The Earth's atmosphere is far more reactive to solar activity than scientists previously believed, with the new research showing it can pulse in near-synchronicity with the sun's powerful flares.
A Trump administration budget proposal for NOAA would slash funding for climate and earth sciences — including shuttering ...
And when that debris hits our Earth's atmosphere, it usually burns up, which creates these bright shooting stars that we see in the sky, like the Perseids. CHANG: Pretty. OK.
Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and ...