Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the reentry of a specific ...

There is another way forward. A circular economy for space applies the same principles that aims to transform modern waste policy on Earth. This means designing products to last and keep them in ...

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 ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

The study of atmospheric dynamics intertwined with micrometeorite research has emerged as a pivotal field, merging planetary science with Earth’s upper atmospheric physics. Investigations reveal that ...

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 ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's new chamber allows researchers to study cloud formation in controlled conditions for the first time.

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

It is pretty important, during an eclipse of any kind, that the Moon and the Sun are on opposite sides of the Earth. The three celestial bodies are in syzygy, a cosmic straight line. You do not get an ...

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, ...