Plastic Planet: Tracking Pervasive Microplastics Through the Atmosphere and Across the Globe

Study shows forests play greater role in depositing toxic mercury across the globe

Using Saturn’s Rings to Figure out What’s Inside the Planet

Mystery solved: Jupiter’s X-ray aurora explained. X-ray flares are triggered by periodic vibrations in Jupiter’s magnetic field lines, which create waves of plasma that allow ions to “surf” down into the atmosphere, where they collide at high speed and generate X-rays.