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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of various pollutant metals in Earth's stratosphere. They traced the metals back to rockets and satellites launched into space. The stratosphere contains the ...

KSNV coverage of $20 million renovation of the Stratosphere, Jan. 13, 2011. Straddling the Strip and downtown, the Stratosphere has long toed the line between an Old Vegas resort and a modern ...

The Stratosphere just turned 20. I know what you’re thinking: How can that be? It’s gotta be older than that. I’m not dissing the Strat, and neither are you. It’s just that it feels like this place ...

The Stratosphere celebrated the grand opening of its new SkyJump on Tuesday, and Las Vegas Sun reporter Christine Killimayer took the plunge: 855 feet, falling at 40 mph from the top of Vegas' tallest ...

For the first time ever, an exoplanet located 880 light-years away was found to have a stratosphere — a layer in the upper atmosphere where the temperature increases the higher up you go. The ...