Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

Researchers in China have developed a way of locating giant "equatorial plasma bubbles" in the ionosphere by analyzing the ...

Kosmos-482, a failed Soviet Venus probe, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere in May, but tracking its exact descent proved elusive.

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

New particle formation (NPF) is a significant source of atmospheric particle number concentration and cloud condensation nuclei. The fate of nascent particles is dependent on their ability to take up ...

On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. This was a Russian probe designed to ...

Imagine stepping outside to smell the fresh air, only to realize that striking a match could ignite the very sky above your head. It sounds ... Read more The post What If the Atmosphere Became ...

New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere haven’t been this high in millions of years.

Gas composition and temperature can be interpreted from these readings, and from there the shifting position of the atmosphere. It's not clear yet what's causing the unusual behavior, but it could ...