Australia has always had heatwaves. But this week’s heatwave in southeastern Australia is something else. Temperatures in some inland towns in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria were up to ...

Atmospheric science is rapidly evolving as new technologies, analytical tools, and theoretical frameworks enhance our ...

The formation of ice in the atmosphere is a fundamental process that underpins both cloud dynamics and precipitation. Ice nucleation, the initial step in ice formation, occurs when supercooled water ...

Pluto, once considered the ninth planet of our solar system, has been a topic of intrigue since its reclassification as a dwarf planet. Recent observations suggest that its atmosphere is expanding, ...

Temperature inversions are atmospheric phenomena where temperature increases with increasing altitude, creating extreme stability that inhibits vertical mixing. They are commonly formed nocturnally ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Conjure, in your mind's eye, a visual to accompany the word 'aurora'. What you imagine might be dominated by the color green, elaborate swirls and swooshes that dance across the sky above a frozen ...

Right now, the world’s best weather forecast model is a General Circulation Model, or GCM, put together by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. A GCM is in part based on code that ...

The first deployment of one of NASA’s most ambitious research studies of Earth’s atmosphere will take place this July and August. The Atmospheric Tomography mission will take off aboard the agency’s ...

The Mobile Uncrewed Systems for Atmospheric Science (MUSAS) provides small uncrewed aircraft systems to capture high quality, high resolution in-situ measurements of atmospheric processes and ...