New research shows extreme drought weakened the Amazon's natural ability to remove isoprene from the air, creating a hidden ...

The rate of Starlink satellite disposals between December 2025 and May 2026 increased slightly from the previous six months, ...

Isoprene is a volatile organic compound (VOC) that is produced naturally by plants. More than 500 megatonnes of isoprene are ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

The recently discovered asteroid COWECP5 entered Earth’s atmosphere at around 11:15 a.m. ET (17:15 C.E.T) on December 3 and created a fireball over the sky in Eastern Siberia. According to the ...

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged. The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth.

Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The sun may be 93 million miles away, but that does not stop its solar ...

Fossil eggshells from giant birds that lived more than 15 million years ago have given scientists a new way to explore how ...

Discover how a Lufthansa Airbus has been measuring the atmosphere for 15 years, contributing valuable climate data on ozone ...

Earth’s history has been shaped by five mass extinctions—catastrophic periods when life changed so dramatically that entire ...

The outermost part of our planet’s atmosphere extends well beyond the lunar orbit – almost twice the distance to the Moon. A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and ...