Sea ice data is updated daily, with a one-day lag. On occasion, there is data delay which is usually resolved within a few days. The orange line in extent and concentration images (left and middle) ...

Last week, Facebook’s co-founder launched the Meta AI app, a dedicated home for his company’s artificial intelligence chatbot. The app, which climbed to No. 2 on the iPhone free download ...

A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames over the Pacific. Peregrine One suffered a propulsion fault that scuppered any prospect of a lunar ...

Methane makes up just 0.00018 percent of the atmosphere, compared to 0.039 percent for carbon dioxide. (CO 2 is roughly 200 times more abundant.) Yet scientists attribute about one-sixth of recent ...

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Earth's atmosphere protects the planet in more ways than one. This thin band of air is unique to Earth, and we wouldn't exist without it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and result in loss of life as well as enormous property damage.

Ozone is a pale blue gas composed of three oxygen atoms bonded together. It occurs naturally high up in the Earth's atmosphere, where it protects the surface from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays ...

Pluto’s atmosphere is hard to observe from Earth. It can only be studied when Pluto passes in front of a distant star, allowing astronomers to see the effect the atmosphere has on starlight ...

SARS is a contagious and life-threatening respiratory infection that can lead to pneumonia. The virus that causes it is related to the same virus that causes COVID-19.