In the summer, the much warmer air mass expands like a dome and causes the troposphere to reach a height of 11 miles above the surface. This is why clouds tend to grow bigger and taller in the summer ...

Imagine waking up one morning to find that Earth’s atmosphere has vanished—gone, as if erased by an invisible hand. Suddenly, ...

France is leaning hard into near space, warning the area is increasingly contested, as evidenced by the Chinese spy ballon ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

Rain is one of nature’s most fascinating processes, yet most people take it for granted. Every drop that falls from the sky ...

Whether you dab, smoke, or vape cannabis, nothing gets your cells buzzing like high-quality snow caps. The unique THCA ...

Two new public web pages address common questions, misconceptions, and scientific concerns related to high-altitude emissions ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience of the Earth system.1 The framework quantifies safe boundary levels for ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...