The stratosphere contains tiny blobs of sulfuric acid, which are now infused with the metals from old spacecraft. The presence of those metals could change the chemistry of the stratosphere ...

Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere. The microphones picked up aircraft, thunder, explosions, colliding ocean waves, as well as some ...

The devastating Australian bushfires of 2019–20 sent massive plumes of smoke high into the atmosphere, ... atmospheric chemists was to explain its unique seasonal and spatial characteristics.

It may sound like the plot of an old James Bond movie, but an idea to "dehydrate the stratosphere" to slow climate change is real. In a study released Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers ...

Daniel Bowman and other researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, have been sending solar-powered balloons with sensors into the stratosphere to record sounds in the second layer of the Earth's ...

Solar-powered balloons floating in the stratosphere have recorded low-frequency sounds of mysterious origin. “When we started flying balloons years ago, we didn’t really know what we’d hear ...