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Carbon dioxide released through the burning of fossil fuels is cooling the upper atmosphere, says a group of physicists who believe that a coherent pattern of global climate change in Earth's upper ...

Greenhouse gas emissions aren’t just warming our planet, they’re reshaping space, too. A new study from MIT aerospace engineers reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are shrinking Earth’s upper ...

Figure 3: Temporal variation of carbon at pressure level Z = −6(altitude ∼ 101 km) from the NCAR global mean model simulation. The ACE-FTS trends are not a true global average, because the data ...

FARGO — The thermosphere is a layer high in the atmosphere known for extremely high temperatures, extremely low air density and, on occasion, the Northern Lights. From about 50 miles above the surface ...

An Australian-built spacecraft will be launched from the International Space Station for the first time next year, as researchers from three Australian universities get ready to make history. The ...

Scientists have discovered yet another enigma about our planet: the thermosphere has undergone serious shrinkage. The thermosphere is the largest portion of the Earth’s atmosphere and is the ...