We’ll be discussing how astronauts the Orion spacecraft safely enters Earth’s atmosphere in this edition of weather tidbits.

In the middle of the Antarctic winter, during months of darkness when temperatures often dip below −30°C, the continent ...

Atmospheric rivers—narrow bands of concentrated water vapor transported polewards from the tropics—don't just deliver a deluge of rainfall, but play a key role in driving extreme heat events and ...

Neptune’s atmospheric temperature is on an unexpected roller-coaster ride, and it could take decades for scientists to piece together what’s happening at the distant planet. Each Neptune year lasts ...

Antarctica’s winter heatwave saw temperatures rise 28°C above normal, signaling stronger climate change impacts, rising sea ...

Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth's atmosphere, a new international study shows. The research draws on decades of observations to quantify that warming ...

Stand on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit and you would lose consciousness in roughly 15 seconds. Not because of the ...

Paris — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, the United Nations warned on Monday, saying countries are falling "miles short" of what's needed to curb ...

Although we are learning more than ever before about the other planets in our solar system, there are still plenty of mysteries to unwind. One open question is why exactly the atmosphere of gas giants ...

An artistic rendering of the ultra-hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-18b. (Image credit: Keith Miller/Caltech/IPAC) There’s an intriguing exoplanet out there—400 light-years out there—that is so ...