Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Researchers have detected measurable traces left in the upper atmosphere when a rocket stage burns up, finding about ten times more lithium atoms than normal at around 96 kilometres, roughly 20 hours ...

Despite 2023 and 2024 ranking as the warmest years on record, extreme cold events still gripped parts of China, Europe, and North America. A new study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found that ocean warming in 2024 has led to new record high temperatures. The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans, ...

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is host to a diverse spectrum of wave phenomena, among which acoustic-gravity waves occupy a pivotal role. These waves arise from the interplay between compressional (acoustic) ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2002 – An atmospheric phenomenon called “sprites” could be pumping 50 times more energy into the upper atmosphere than was previously thought, suggesting our understanding of the ...

Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on ...

John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” This is especially true when we’re trying to fix the damage that we’re doing ...

Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now driving ...