"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest parachute ever to be flown outside Earth" ...

When the polar vortex stretches, North America feels the chill. New research reveals some of the stratospheric patterns ...

The stratosphere — the layer of Earth's atmosphere between 7.5 and 31 miles up — is shrinking due to greenhouse-gas emissions, a new study found. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

At first listen, Earth’s stratosphere seems calm and quiet. But when researchers launched solar-powered balloons up 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world — including mysterious ...

Because it's difficult to measure, scientists have been unsure how much water passes from the troposphere, the layer of Earth's atmosphere we breathe, into the stratosphere (which runs from about ...

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 ...

Though they may seem low-tech, the balloons do what they need to do to properly listen—get up to the stratosphere. On the ground, and in lower levels of the atmosphere, many sounds can get lost ...

Science of Weather: Layers in the atmosphere 01:55. There are five major layers in the Atmosphere. Each one of the layers has unique details. Starting from the earth's surface and working our way ...

The stratosphere typically begins between 7-15 miles above ground. The stratosphere is high up in the atmosphere. It varies depending on where you are on the planet and the time of year.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Berly McCoy of Short Wave about the formation of the moon's wispy atmosphere, sea lion cameras and the Perseid meteor shower.