Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.

Such secrecy “makes it really hard for scientists to get an idea about the composition of spacecraft, element-wise, and thus determine their impact” upon reentry, Schulz says.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Composition of the Upper Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 101 No. 12 (September 1909), p. 190 doi:10.1038 ...

If you want to look into the early Earth, a key piece of the puzzle is the air of our planet’s ancient skies. Today, for instance, Earth’s atmosphere is filled with gases that support the ...

Chemicals produced by re-entering satellites of Starlink and other megaconstellations will likely alter the chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere and cause damage to the protective ozone layer.

The Earth’s atmosphere has a number of layers. The region we know best, because it is where our weather happens, is the troposphere. This dense blanket of air 5 to 9 miles thick contains 80 ...

The Hunga eruption contributed about 150 metric megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere — an amount so high that it raised global levels of stratospheric water vapor by about 10%.

January’s Tonga eruption sent an unusually large amount of water vapor high into Earth’s atmosphere and could temporarily influence our planet’s surface temperature.