In the vacuum of space, a gunshot is not muffled by the lack of air. It is actually released with all of the explosive might ...

NASA scientists have discovered a planet-wide electric field surrounding Earth, confirming a 60-year-old hypothesis. Studying ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tiny, cold rock, Pluto seems almost incapable of having an atmosphere. Between its small ...

Earth's atmosphere protects the planet in more ways than one. This thin band of air is unique to Earth, and we wouldn't exist without it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

July 28 (UPI) --The Hubble Space Telescope observed a young planet that is orbiting so close to its parent star that it is spewing its atmosphere into space, NASA said.The planet orbits the star ...

The NASA space shuttle reaches high speeds in space. The SR-71 jet moves more slowly because it must reach its top speeds in Earth's atmosphere.

NASA image of Venus' atmosphere taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft. Venus appears to be losing carbon and oxygen ions to space. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The environmental impacts are still uncertain. Early on a Sunday morning ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS ...

Mars may have once possessed an atmosphere about as thick as Earth’s, but then lost most of it to space due to solar wind and ultraviolet rays, a new study found.. The new finding could shed ...