Scientists are using a new technique to study incoming space debris and its effects on Earth's atmosphere.

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

A powerful new laser-based monitoring system is giving scientists an unprecedented look at how reentering satellites and ...

GOLDEN, CO — The surge in megasatellite constellations is creating problems beyond amplifying the Earth-circling space debris, according to new research. Reentering spacecraft and rocket stages may ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how atmospheric composition and chemical processes are observed, interpreted, and modeled. The complexity of atmospheric chemistry—shaped by nonlinear ...

Atmospheric science is the study of the structure and dynamics of Earth’s atmosphere, as well as the atmospheres of other planets and their moons. This field of study examines the physics and ...