Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

Many human activities release polluting gases into the atmosphere ... The Earth has a layered structure made up of the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. These layers each ...

The ozone layer is a thin shield of gas in the Earth’s atmosphere that protects the planet, absorbing the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays and helping to preserve all life on the planet.

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth's entire ... the atmosphere's lowest region. The balloons also reach the lower part of the stratosphere, the layer ...

Sandwiched between those layers, though, lies the mesosphere, an atmospheric region roughly 35 kilometers (22 miles) thick. While weather balloons access the lower part of Earth's atmosphere and ...

an enormous burst of gamma rays—labeled GRB 221009A—caused a significant disturbance in a layer of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere. The ionosphere sits from around 31 miles (50 ...