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

Greenhouse gases are eroding the safe carrying capacity for low Earth orbit, a new study concludes. Moreover, the authors ...

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 ...

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

Hydroxyl scrubs the potent greenhouse gas methane from the atmosphere. But its production is linked with emissions of other ...

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