BOULDER, Colo. — The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in – where all the weather happens. The stratosphere is the layer right above that. In the 1990s, scientists realized that ...
A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered ...
Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics.
Between 50 and 100 kilometers (30–60 miles) above the Earth's surface lies a largely unstudied stretch of the atmosphere, called the mesosphere. It's too high for airplanes and weather balloons, too ...
MR. CAVE'S book is a welcome addition to the valuable contributions of amateurs to the common stock of scientific knowledge, and is the more welcome as the first book on this special subject. The ...