Imagine for a moment the atmosphere is a kitchen sink. Wildfires, industry emissions, plants and microbes dump their grimy dishes into it in the form of noxious and planet-heating gases. The only ...

Atmospheric desert dust has long swirled around the globe, but a new UCLA study presents the strongest evidence yet that global dust is mysteriously decreasing. Because atmospheric dust has a slight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New observations of one of the famous TRAPPIST-1 planets are once again teasing scientists with tantalizing clues about a world ...

Earth's atmosphere has become about 10% less dusty in just two decades, and scientists say the unexpected decline may have quietly added to recent global warming Alexander Gluschenko/Unsplash Earth's ...