Hot air holds more moisture than cold air. That simple truth, while familiar to anyone who’s used a blow dryer or walked ...

Right now, the temperature of the Earth is pretty much perfect for humans, at around 13.9 degrees Celsius, or 57 degrees Fahrenheit.Yes, that is much lower than "room temperature," which is around ...

These glass spheres formed between 3.3 and 3.6 billion years ago during explosive volcanic eruptions when the ... as scientists needed to protect the beads from contamination by Earth’s atmosphere.

Earth’s energy imbalance, a key measure of global warming, has doubled in the past 20 years, ... Earth’s atmosphere is trapping more than twice as much excess heat now compared to 1993, ...

Avi Loeb's team's findings may not say whether the metallic spheres are ... Other elements are thought to have been lost by evaporation during IM1's passage through the Earth's atmosphere, ...

ERS-2, a satellite commissioned by the European Space Agency nearly 30 years ago, is set to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere this morning—though the ESA said this poses an extremely low risk to ...

First came the surprising discovery that Earth’s atmosphere is leaking. But for roughly 60 years, the reason remained a mystery. Since the late 1960s, satellites over the poles detected an ...

Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will ...

The Earth's atmosphere is far more reactive to solar activity than scientists previously believed, with the new research showing it can pulse in near-synchronicity with the sun's powerful flares.

A roughly 1-meter asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 12:39 p.m. ET, according to the European Space Agency.

Traces of Earth’s earliest atmosphere could be buried on the Moon. Future lunar sample return missions could bring back rocks that contain molecules from a mysterious time in our planet’s history.

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and ...