When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

On Earth, the atmosphere is the blanket of gasses surrounding our planet. The atmosphere is composed of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.03% Carbon Dioxide, and other gasses such as water vapor ...

A new academic field called “atmospheric studies” is developing at Kobe University. We often use expressions like “good atmosphere” or “bad atmosphere,” but what does that really mean? Researchers ...

What you have read is correct. In fact, readings of 4,000 degrees exist in portions of the upper atmosphere, in the ionosphere — a layer extending from about 30 to 600 miles above the Earth’s surface.

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a paradox at the heart of our changing climate. While the blanket of air close to the ...