A series of rocket-borne atmospheric reconnaissance missions in the Arctic Circle is yielding potentially valuable data on the little-known thermodynamics of the middle and upper atmosphere. On 8 July ...

Nature Asia – The lower atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan is strongly structured, with two distinct layers that affect wind patterns, dune spacing and cloud formation, reports a paper published online ...

Venus Express has spied a surprisingly cold region high in the planet’s atmosphere that may be frigid enough for carbon dioxide to freeze out as ice or snow. The planet Venus is well-known for its ...

Mars’s atmosphere harbours a layer of electrically charged metal atoms, and they’re not behaving as expected. NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Emission) spacecraft found layers of ...

When you look up at the sky, does it look like one big mass of air? Well there are actually 4 layers to the atmosphere all with different properties. Here, we will take a look at each layer from the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — How many layers do you think there are in our atmosphere? Five! We have five different layers between us and outer space. From the surface up there is the troposphere, the ...

A massive and blazing hot distant exoplanet has a stratosphere, a "sunscreen" layer that's one of the main layers of our own planet's atmosphere, astronomers say. The atmosphere layer on the planet ...

We live in the troposphere and that's where weather happens. It extends from the surface of the Earth to about 7 miles up. The 7 mile cap is an average since colder locations like the poles have a ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - I like to think of the atmosphere as sort of a big sandwich since the atmosphere isn't just one layer. It has many distinct layers from the ground all the way into space. This ...