The rapid unscheduled disassembly of SpaceX's Starship mega rocket may have released significant amounts of harmful ...

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Its plunge back to Earth through the atmosphere may have ... and upper stratosphere — the otherwise pristine middle layers of the atmosphere — has been skyrocketing. Air pollution in the ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about ... the atmosphere's lowest region. The balloons also reach the lower part of the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere.

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Astronomers have debated whether these planets are Earth ... by layers of high, thick clouds, which seem to be common on this type of planet, and make it difficult to study the atmosphere below ...

The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be about 6.2 miles (10 ... tons into Earth’s atmosphere. The results showed ...

It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, right on the edge of Earth's atmosphere ... to harvest molecules from the thin layer of air that is present in VLEO in order to ...