After nearly 10 days in space, a record-setting trip beyond the moon, and a long arc back toward home, NASA’s four-person ...

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 space race is accelerating, but its environmental footprint is growing. Discover how space activity is affecting Earth’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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space junk falling out of orbit can be a threat -- now scientists say they have found a new way to track it as it speeds through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: ESA) A new study of Earth's upper atmosphere has discovered spikes in lithium ion levels following the return of a Falcon ...

What can a rocky molten exoplanet with an atmosphere teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...

Artemis 2's Orion capsule will hit Earth's atmosphere at nearly 25,000 mph on April 10. Here's how it will survive the fiery ...

Mars' atmosphere has been of interest to scientists for decades, especially as humanity looks to set up outposts on the Red Planet. Recently, the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter gave ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is truly a remarkable world. It has a thick atmosphere as well as rivers, lakes, and seas of methane and hydrocarbons. It is too cold for liquid water, but it is the ...

This delicately layered atmosphere is considered a "mille-feuille" by experts at the European Space Agency. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts reenter our planet’s atmosphere more than three times a day. When these ...