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 ...

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.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth’s atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b. The presence of a stratosphere can ...

A University of Iowa professor has been selected to help lead an up to $355 million NASA mission to launch a satellite measuring the upper atmosphere to help predict weather, track pollution, and ...

Burning satellites may release alumina, soot and metals that affect Earth’s atmosphere and may damage the ozone layer.