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What’s the first thing you do after waking up each morning, before you’ve even gotten out of bed? For many people, it’s checking the weather. For most, this is a thoughtless chore, an unexciting daily ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind one of climate change’s strangest fingerprints: while Earth’s surface heats up, the upper atmosphere is rapidly cooling. Researchers at Columbia ...

A brief stellar eclipse suggests the tiny 2002 XV93 has a thin atmosphere — a first for any solar system body farther from ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

UW-Milwaukee’s Atmospheric Science program is a part of the School of Freshwater Sciences. The degree program will close at the end of this school year due to low enrollment and faculty retirements, ...

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly ...

A powerful new laser-based monitoring system is giving scientists an unprecedented look at how reentering satellites and ...

Astronomers have discovered a thin atmosphere around a small celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time, ...

A rare observation opportunity revealed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small object beyond Pluto.

Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact ...