The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the number of satellite launches has increased by an order of magnitude as ...

Earth's stratosphere - an atmospheric layer that starts 7.5 miles above the surface - is shrinking. The stratosphere has gotten a quarter-mile thinner since 1980 and will keep contracting. That ...

Ozone from the stratosphere - 10 miles above ground, plunged to the surface producing air quality alerts across southern Colorado on Monday. This is rare. And, it came on top of the intense and ...

A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet — while admitting that it’d only do so much. In a press release, the National ...

Earth’s space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is connecting much of the world to broadband internet. But each year, hundreds of those ...

We got an exclusive look inside Sceye's hangar in Roswell, New Mexico, a week before the company launched its balloon-like high-altitude platform system into the stratosphere. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his ...

Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the microphones picked up some unexpected sounds. The stratosphere is the second layer of ...

About 7.5 miles above our heads, the stratosphere begins. That slice of sky — where supersonic jets and weather balloons fly — stretches up to 31 miles above Earth's surface. But according to new ...