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

"It is collectively the effects of all the things we do that are changing the atmosphere ... "There's so much evidence now that the Earth's operating system is different from these thousands ...

Fossils Life processes can change the composition of the atmosphere. Fossils can tell scientists what living things were around at different times in Earth’s history. Evidence of early plants ...

Keep reading to learn more about Earth's different layers, its atmosphere, and what makes the "blue planet" unique. Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more ...

Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets dramatically thinner at a point known as the Kármán line, roughly 100 kilometers up. Objects that orbit the ...

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has captured an image of a blue jet sprite in the Earth's atmosphere, a rare phenomenon only confirmed in recent years. Astronaut and keen astrophotographer Don Pettit ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Colorado State University.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Earth in the Sun's Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (October 1959), p. 64 doi:10.1038 ...