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.

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 ...

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 ...

A giant parachute built for the beleaguered European ExoMars mission has aced a drop test in the Arctic stratosphere.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we dehydrate the stratosphere and remove the water vapor there, it could help control how much radiation is being trapped in Earth’s atmosphere. Image source: studio023 / Adobe ...

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.