The booming space industry has filled the skies with rockets and satellites, but this rapid expansion comes with a hidden ...

As much as we should appreciate and protect the atmosphere that immediately embraces this planet, the other layers of the atmosphere are essential too and provide services we may not readily recognize ...

The ozone layer sits toward the bottom of the stratosphere, roughly 20 to 40 kilometers (66,000 and 131,000 feet) above the ground. It gets its name from its high concentration of ...

Scientists have been celebrating seventy years of continuous data collection of measurements from the ionosphere, the outer-most layer in the Earth’s atmosphere. On 11 January 1931, a sequence of ...

A new climate intervention strategy aims to decrease the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by injecting it with ice-forming nuclei. The idea is that, by reducing the water content, more heat ...

Scientists have found another aurora here on Earth — but unlike the better known Northern Lights, this one doesn't put on a show for humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A tremendous cosmic explosion 2.4 billion light years away temporarily changed the electric field in Earth’s ionosphere (the electrically-charged upper layer of our atmosphere that helps shield life ...

NASA and SpaceX will launch three satellites on Wednesday to study space weather, including the solar wind, the boundary of our solar system, and the edge of Earth’s atmosphere.

Chemicals created by fiery satellite re-entries could affect Earth's climate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have ...