In March 1972, the Soviet Union sent up a probe to explore the planet Venus. It was a failure. Kosmos 482 never escaped low ...

The latest projections peg the 1,000-pound spacecraft’s reentry between May 8 and May 11. A complicating factor is that ...

A commercial expedition is planning to take clients up the tallest mountain in the world in record time with the help of ...

The moistest, most buoyant air rises the highest, while drier less buoyant air doesn’t make it so far up. If there is lots of ...

Using satellite data and atmospheric modeling, the researchers tested two culprits: lamb waves—pressure waves that “hug” Earth’s surface—and secondary gravity waves, which are generated ...

How core-mantle differentiation influenced the distribution of volatile elements on Earth. Imagine Earth's history as a ...

These powerful winds agitate the ocean surface, generating higher seas and longer-wavelength waves within the storm’s fetch.

Weather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere ... received by the Earth and influence long-term climate Surface temperature differences in turn cause pressure differences.

It incorporates the effects of atmospheric processes at higher levels ... In the southern hemisphere, the earth's rotation causes air to flow clockwise around low pressure systems and anticlockwise ...

Upper air charts are generally labelled with the pressure level in hectopascals ... which lies about 1000 metres above the earth's surface and is the level most representative of the air flow in the ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.