Evangelista Torricelli, one of the first to discover atmospheric pressure, once said, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air." The Earth's gravitational field is pulling ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces that ripple through ...

The same wave in the jet stream can lead to strong winds, blowing dust and fire danger in one region, while triggering a ...

Earth's atmosphere is 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent ... air is so thin and the amount of oxygen so small that pressure oxygen masks no longer do the job. Above the 63,000-foot threshold ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is to blame.

The atmosphere is like an invisible cloak enveloping our planet, a silent guardian that shapes our daily experiences in ways ...

Climate change isn’t just warming the planet—it’s reshaping space. As greenhouse gases trap heat in the lower atmosphere, the upper atmosphere cools and contracts, reducing the drag that naturally ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is the relatively thin ... that the weight of the air above you is what causes air pressure (atmospheric pressure). This weight of the air above is equivalent to the ...

More than 100 million people in the U.S. will be in the path of an intense March storm starting Friday as the sprawling multi-day system threatens fires, blizzards, tornadoes, and flooding as it ...