A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and plants. The chemicals are particularly intriguing as a potential sign of life ...

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding ...

Much of the nitrous oxide entering the atmosphere from the oceans could be formed by a previously unknown inorganic route.

Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions may reduce Earth's satellite capacity by 66% by 2100, as detailed in Nature Sustainability.

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...