NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces that ripple through ...

Most recently, a project called Atmospheric Perturbations Around The Eclipse Path (APEP) investigated how a drop in sunlight and temperature affects Earth's upper atmosphere. During October 14's ...

Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

Upper atmospheric cooling is the phenomenon in which, "while the blanket of air close to the Earth's surface is warming, most of the atmosphere above is becoming dramatically colder," as defined ...

Ranging from September 2004 to December 2023, it spans multiple levels of the atmosphere from ground level up to the lower edge of space, about 110 kilometers above Earth's surface. The region ...

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid ...

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

"The tops of this [upward directed lightning] are around 75-80km [47-50 miles], boarding on the fringes of space." ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...