Satellites and spacecraft burning up in our atmosphere are leaving metal particles in the stratosphere — and scientists are worried it could harm our planet. About 10% of the particles floating around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's stratosphere - an atmospheric layer that starts 7.5 miles above the surface - is shrinking. The stratosphere has gotten a ...

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A high-resolution simulation of Typhoon Molave's 2020 landfall in the Philippines shows that mountains beneath a typhoon ...

In January more than 100 communications satellites burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, vaporising as they crashed towards the planet at about eight kilometres a second. These spectacular exits are ...

Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next decade or so. The growing swarm is already causing problems for ...

A new climate intervention strategy aims to decrease the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by injecting it with ice-forming nuclei. The idea is that, by reducing the water content, more heat ...