Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

For decades, satellites passing over Earth's north and south poles have experienced a flow of ions from the upper atmosphere into space. Dubbed the 'polar wind', the source of this flow had eluded ...

Berkeley — Discovery of the last piece of a long-standing puzzle — what happens to hydrogen gas in the atmosphere — will help scientists assess the impact of additional hydrogen escaping into the ...

The new National Science Foundation University of Wyoming King Air atmospheric research aircraft is getting set to begin flying high for more knowledge, with its first mission slated for summer 2025.

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

The Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program joins forces with research programs across the world to improve forecasts of extreme weather events “We know that better measurements of atmospheric rivers ...

Salt crystals formed when a saline lake dried up 1.4 billion years ago trapped air inside, providing a sample of the atmosphere of the day, before photosynthesis was productive enough to make it ...

BOISE, Idaho — As wildfires continue through the hot and dry months of summer to fall, their smoke isn’t just clouding the skies, it’s also playing a complex role in the atmospheric chemistry. It can ...

Researchers have discovered argon trapped in air-hydrate crystals in ice cores, which can be used to reconstruct past temperature changes and climate shifts. On the massive sheets of ice that stretch ...