Spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere are leaving behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand if that affects the climate. One risk is that these particles may spark rainbow-colored ...

Rocket launches and satellite reentries are depositing metals and soot directly into Earth’s stratosphere, and a growing body of peer-reviewed research warns that these pollutants are altering the ...

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Satellites and rocket stages burning up on reentry are now depositing more aluminum into Earth’s upper atmosphere than ...

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

According to data from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, 2023 was a record year for launching satellites, probes, landers and more into space. But scientists worry those plumes of ...

It may sound like the plot of an old James Bond movie, but an idea to "dehydrate the stratosphere" to slow climate change is real. In a study released Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers ...

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 ...

It’s been an unsettled winter in the atmosphere above Antarctica. About 30 kilometers above the continent’s icy surface, in the layer known as the stratosphere, a series of warming events took place ...

Powerful monsoon winds, strengthened by a warming climate, are lofting unexpectedly large quantities of ozone-depleting substances high into the atmosphere over East Asia, according to new research.