#Atmosphere

A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn’s changing “rotation rate” was never caused by the planet speeding up or slowing down, but by powerful winds high in its…

A cloaked alien invasion force is approaching Earth and coming up on Mars. The first officer looks through a viewfinder and says, “Captain, the fourth planet’s atmosphere is behaving strangely.…

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.

The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.

Water World, created by Seán Doran from imagery captured by a NASA/NOAA weather satellite, is a gorgeous, swirling, painterly portrait of the Earth’s dynamic atmosphere. Doran calls it “a meditati

Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of adverse effects on seafloor organisms

When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupted, it shot huge amounts of methane and debris into the air, then something weird happened.

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind one of climate change’s strangest fingerprints: while Earth’s surface heats up, the upper atmosphere is rapidly cooling.…

The potent pollution from so-called megaconstellation satellite systems launched en masse into space since 2019 will account for nearly half (42%) of the total climate impact of space sector pollution by the end of the decade, finds a new study led by UCL…

Lately, I’ve been thinking less about productivity itself and more about the atmosphere that supports...

Researchers have uncovered unexpectedly high levels of silicone-based pollutants called methylsiloxanes floating through the atmosphere across cities, rural regions, and even forests.…

They can detect clouds of metal generated by falling satellites and rocket bodies.

From Space.com: 30-mile-high clouds of acid on Venus are made by the largest 'hydraulic jump' in the solar system

A relatively tiny world in the Kuiper belt, just 500 km in diameter, has an atmosphere after all, joining Pluto. Here's what we know today.

From Independent RSS Feed: A blow-by-blow account of the dinosaur-killing asteroid armageddon: From first vibrations to 100-metre megatsunamis

This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.

Climate scientists have discovered that microplastics and nanoplastics are helping to drive global warming by absorbing sunlight and radiation in the atmosphere.

The answer is a gigantic “hydraulic jump,” and researchers believe similar phenomena may occur on planets like Mars.

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there’s a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical.…