As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

The Earth’s atmosphere, though made up of light gases, has weight. The pressure exerted on us at sea level is about 101,300 ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

Evangelista Torricelli, one of the first to discover atmospheric pressure, once said, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air." The Earth's gravitational field is pulling ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these ...

At sea level, there is 101,000 N of air above every metre squared of the Earth’s surface. Atmospheric pressure decreases as the height of a surface above ground level increases. This is because ...

Behind Earth, on its dark side, pressure from the solar wind pushes the planet's outermost atmosphere into a bulbous tail that extends around 391,000 miles (630,000 kilometers) into deep space.

The Earth’s atmosphere is the relatively thin ... that the weight of the air above you is what causes air pressure (atmospheric pressure). This weight of the air above is equivalent to the ...

Scientists at the University of Miami's Alfred C. Glassell Jr. SUrge‐STructure‐Atmosphere INteraction (SUSTAIN) laboratory conducted a first-of-its-kind study into how waves form and increase in windy ...