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Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

Airbus delays its electric commercial aircraft project by up to a decade due to green hydrogen supply challenges.

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Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes ...

They found evidence for the presence of two simple carbon-bearing molecules – carbon monoxide and methane – and showed that ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

An exceptionally powerful atmospheric river fueled the deadly early April flooding disaster in the central and southern ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...