Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter's clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise…
A new study reveals why many meteors, when they enter Earth's atmosphere, become cone-shaped as they heat up.
A unique, low-cost, and crowd-scream-sourced experiment has proven what all sci-fi movie fans know is true: In space, no one…
Scientists have known for some time that Earth's atmosphere loses several hundred tons of oxygen each day. They understand how…
Noctilucent clouds 50 miles above the Earth in the mesosphere. A NASA mission spent five days above the Arctic photographing…
NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft solves decades old mystery that stymied Carl Sagan. Mysterious flashes are mysterious no…
Rain is part of Earth's all-important hydrological cycle, where water evaporates from the Earth's surface, condenses, and falls from the…
Where our atmosphere ends and space begins has been the subject of debate for some time. But thanks to decades…
Jupiter's four largest moons - the Galileans - have long been considered as possible sites for human habitation, and even…
As a gas giant, Neptune has no surface, in the traditional sense. But atop its cloud layers, some pretty amazing…