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

It’s the invisible shield that keeps us alive—but what if Earth’s atmosphere vanished for just one day? Within seconds, the ...

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 ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

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 ...

As on Earth, where average atmospheric pressure clocks in at around 101.3 kilopascals (kPa), areas of Mars experience differing levels of atmospheric pressure. The peak of Olympus Mons (the ...

As Robert Zubrin stated in "The Case for Mars," this process would lead to an atmospheric pressure (atm) of about 300 millibars (30% of Earth's atm at sea level). This would be sufficient for ...

The sounding rockets released vapor tracers and pressure sensors at different altitudes across central and northern Alaska during a sudden auroral substorm.

A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much ...