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 ...
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 ...
A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered ...
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 ...