It started with a simple challenge. Now a group from Auburn Junior High School is taking their project to a whole new level.

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

Daughter polar vortices' could bring snow and ice to parts of northern, central, and eastern United States later this month, ...

The funding will be used to develop and commercialize a connected suite of products that will unlock the full value of the tactical stratosphere for military and commercial customers.

Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...

Brits could face several inches of snow in the coming days according to shocking new weather maps, with forecasters also ...

Forecasters have told homeowners to brace for a new ice storm after predicting that the polar vortex would 'split' off and ...

The majority of our weather occurs here. The layer of the atmosphere that lies between 6 and 31 miles above the surface is known as the stratosphere. The polar vortex is within the stratosphere.

Some parts of Earth's atmosphere are studied continuously ... The balloons also reach the lower part of the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere. The amount of data generated by these ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

The research team integrated the reactions and movement mechanisms of mercury that can occur in the upper and lower parts of the stratosphere, the atmospheric layer directly above the troposphere ...