One of the three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Photo by Danielle Johnson/NASA Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket ...

Sprites, transient luminous events (TLEs) occurring high in the atmosphere above thunderstorms, sometimes produce a rarer, greenish glow called a ghost. A study using the Granada Sprite Spectrograph ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - I like to think of the atmosphere as sort of a big sandwich since the atmosphere isn't just one layer. It has many distinct layers from the ground all the way into space. This ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

This infographic shows the multiple layers of our atmosphere, extending from the ground up into space, and how the new dataset compares in coverage to those currently available. A team led by ...

The past few centuries have yielded an abundance of information about Earth's atmosphere, from the weather that manifests in the troposphere and stratosphere to the vast amounts of heat absorbed by ...

The ISS witnessed an intriguing phenomenon in the stratosphere when Hurricane Helene hit the shores of the Florida coast, ...

Early risers in Texas saw something a little bit unusual earlier this week. A rare display of “meteor smoke clouds” — technically called noctilucent clouds — was rippling overhead before sunrise on ...

Bob Dylan wasn’t singing about upper atmospheric dynamics when he wrote the song, but scientists at the South Pole agree that the answer is indeed blowing in the wind. The group is studying meteoroid ...