Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

If the entire Greenland Ice Sheet melts, sea level would rise by more than 7 meters (23 feet). Atmospheric rivers ... and the density of different layers to calculate the age profile and snow ...

TOI-512b orbits its star every 7.1 days at a distance of just 9,863,797 ... stellar radiation blows their atmosphere away, removing much of the gas and leaving a smaller world at the end of ...

Individual storms can cause tens of millions in damage to installations, demonstrating the vulnerability of critical ...

Nearly 2,500 jobs are being eliminated at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency responsible for collecting weather data used by meteorologists. That could spell ...

The data revealed multiple atmospheric layers, each behaving differently. ・Deep iron-rich clouds: The lowest atmospheric layer contains patchy clouds made of iron particles, shifting in and out ...

To put that into perspective, as of Nov. 7, 2022, only 14,450 satellites ... will be burning in the otherwise pristine upper layers of the atmosphere could alter the atmospheric chemistry and ...

As Sputnik hit the upper atmosphere at incredible ... add up to around US$2.2 trillion (£1.7 trillion) in total. To take one example, a thinner ozone layer increases exposure to harmful ultra ...