approximately 75% of all the air in the atmosphere is found in this layer. The troposphere extends from Earth's surface to approximately 5 to 9 miles (8 to 14.5 km) high. Did you know? According ...

Price. "We tried to reproduce electricity in the lab and found that different isolated metal surfaces will build up different amounts of charge from water vapor in the atmosphere, but only if the ...

Researchers have also found a small amount of oxygen in a thin layer of the planet's atmosphere, though it is atomic oxygen (O), not the molecular oxygen (O2) we breathe. In comparison ...

And, according to new research, those efforts may be working. Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because human-caused ...

The chemical, phosphine (a phosphorus atom hooked up to three hydrogens), would be unstable in the conditions found in Venus' atmosphere, and there's no obvious way for the planet's chemistry to ...

But after Hurricane Karl passed over populated areas of the Caribbean in 2010, up to 25 percent of the microbes found high in the atmosphere were similar to those found in feces, the study found.

While the study isn’t a “smoking gun,” it has found a link between recent increases in methane in the atmosphere and shale gas production. “It’s fuzzy, but the fingerprint is there ...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics By peering throughout the universe with various telescopes, astronomers have found water in ... emitted from HAT-P-11b's atmosphere; water absorbs ...

The planet, named GJ 9827d, is about twice Earth’s diameter, and it’s the smallest exoplanet found to have water vapor in its atmosphere, according to a new study. Water is essential for life ...

And, according to research published in ACS ES&T Air, those efforts may be working. Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...