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We’ll be discussing why meteors burn when entering the Earth’s atmosphere in this edition of Weather Tidbits. When meteors ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

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Layers of Atmosphere: The Earth’s atmosphere is like an invisible blanket that surrounds our planet and makes life possible. It protects us from harmful solar radiation, keeps the temperature balanced ...

The air around you isn't just empty space waiting to be filled. It's a dynamic, ever-shifting system that dictates whether ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...

Imagine the catastrophic winds of a category 5 hurricane. Now, imagine even faster winds of more than 100 meters per second, ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.