Lightning is Hotter Than the Sun Imagine something so hot that it makes the sun look chilly in comparison. That's lightning ...

The atmosphere not only nourishes life on Earth, but it also protects it: It's thick enough that many meteorites burn up before impact from friction, and its gases—such as ozone—block DNA ...

The earth hums with a quiet, rhythmic beat somewhere between the heavens and the ground beneath our feet. It is an ...

The Earth's atmosphere has strengthened its ability to remove air pollutants, including the potent climate-warming gas methane, according to research published in Nature Communications. Regarded ...

Related: Earth's atmosphere: Facts about our planet's protective blanket The data will also help researchers better model how processes in the lower atmosphere affect the ionosphere, the part of ...

In addition to that, some scientists worry that the amount of metal that will be burning up in Earth's atmosphere as old satellites are deorbited could trigger unpredictable changes to the planet ...

Footprints on the Moon don't disappear… That’s because, unlike on Earth, there is no wind or water to erode the footprints. There is no wind or water because the Moon has no atmosphere ...

Its plunge back to Earth through the atmosphere may have generated 45.5 metric tons of metal oxides and 40 metric tons of nitrogen oxides, according to University College London atmospheric ...

NASA astronomers say there's a small chance a distant asteroid could hit Earth three days before Christmas in 2032 - but much ...