As private companies race to make spaceflight routine, Earth’s upper atmosphere has become an unintended testing ground. Each ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

The atmosphere of earth has five main layers, the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere. Each layer is crucial for life and various phenomena.

We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances ...

The ozone layer is a fragile, invisible shield in the stratosphere ndash; 10 to 50 km above earth ndash; that protects all ...

As spaceflight becomes increasingly routine, the environmental cost of reaching orbit is coming under scrutiny. A recent ...

The rapid expansion of satellite constellations and the increasing accumulation of space debris pose significant threats to ...

Discover how strong summer storms in the Midwest are punching wildfire smoke up into the stratosphere — a previously pristine ...

We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of air pollution. Evidence is now ...

Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), are crucial for maintaining Earth's temperature.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Friday organised a sensitisation campaign on ozone layer protection for scrap dealers ...

While SpaceX's Starlink network rapidly grows, experts warn of consequences for the climate, atmosphere, and space.