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 ...

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 ...

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Around 11 miles above Earth’s surface, leftover bits from rockets and spacecraft are lingering in our planet’s atmosphere that could potentially have a lasting effect on the climate. A group of ...

Using tools hitched to the nose cone of their research planes and sampling more than 11 miles above the planet's surface, researchers have discovered significant amounts of metals in aerosols in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research shows that rocket launches and satellite reentries are depositing pollutants directly into the stratosphere, where they threaten to slow the recovery of ...