Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of ...

With common adversaries, the climate and nuclear disarmament movements have an unexplored potential to work together.

Researchers propose stratospheric aerosol injection to cool the planet, but face challenges and controversies in climate ...

Meteorologists are launching fewer weather balloons across the United States as the National Weather Service loses staff. Some worry forecasts will suffer.

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth ...

There are 10 main types of clouds. There's the Cumulus cloud, otherwise know as the Simpsons' cloud. "The cartoon cloud that forms on a sunny day. The fair weather cloud. It's like the generic one, ...

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...

NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected, and unexplainable, C-shapes and X-shaped formations in part of Earth's atmosphere ...

A growing global desire to venture into deep space could pose a new threat to life back on Earth – 40 years after the alarm ...

An atmospheric scientist explains how hail forms and what to do if you’re suddenly being pelted by giant ice chunks falling from the sky.

Volcanic ash from eruptions can reshape cirrus clouds, forming giant ice crystals and altering how Earth traps heat in the atmosphere.

A climate scientist explains how the sun heats Earth, which warms the air that rises and immediately begins to cool as it ...