New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will ...

The Earth’s atmosphere, though made up of light gases, has weight. The pressure exerted on us at sea level is about 101,300 ...

The cool air sinks forming high pressure systems. According to WorldAtlas most helicopters and light airplanes fly in the troposphere. The stratosphere is the second layer of Earth's atmosphere.

Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of gases that are ... This is the point at which the radiation pressure on hydrogen atoms from the Sun exceeds the gravitational pull of the Earth, making it ...

A Russian probe that's been stuck in Earth's orbit since the 1970s when it was supposed to land on Venus will likely survive what astronomers are calling its 'final death plunge' through our planet's ...