The average surface air temperature was 55.81 degrees Fahrenheit That's 1.42 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1991-2020 average ...

The molecules from all those gases stacked on top of each other form what scientists call atmospheric pressure, which is measured by the force of the air’s weight on Earth’s surface.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

High pressure and the polar vortex A massive ... a boundary between the two lowest layers of Earth’s atmosphere -- the stratosphere and the troposphere, where nearly all weather occurs.

While both can produce anything from snow and rain to thunderstorms, one of them also helps hurricanes generate their ...

Its plunge back to Earth through the atmosphere may have generated 45.5 metric tons of metal oxides and 40 metric tons of nitrogen oxides, according to University College London atmospheric ...

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth's entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space. They hope the project will help shed light on some little ...

Scientists have discovered that the Earth’s atmosphere is getting better at removing air pollution, including methane, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases. This new research, published in Nature ...