Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The ten warmest years since the early days of the industrial revolution have all occurred since 2015. Read more here.

Stag trips are the perfect opportunities for friends to strengthen their relationships. Planning group activities that ...

Debris from capsules and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

In the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere—where weather occurs—there spins a polar vortex that circles the globe year round, a jet stream that’s also sometimes referred to as ...

Folks may notice hazy conditions and hotter days that continue into the following week, the NOAA reports. Around this time, ...

Reports of ping-pong ball sized hail in Butte County and winds in excess of 80mph are coming in, a precursor to Saturday ...

Expect a slight chance for isolated showers on Saturday with rain chances becoming more widespread for Sunday.

Explore the layers of the atmosphere depicted to scale, including the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere. Discover what occurs in each layer. This video is available ...

Between 50 and 1,000 kilometers above our heads is the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere consisting of charged particles: ions (atoms that have gained or lost a negatively charged ...

Some of the ions become trapped in a layer of the atmosphere called the ionosphere, where they collide with gas atoms—primarily oxygen and nitrogen—and "excite" them with extra energy.