A local weather pundit captured images of a rare meteorological phenomenon on Sunday over Wick when he saw a ‘stunning ...

Mesosphere (22 Miles Thick) Meso is Greek for "middle" so this is literally the middle sphere. Despite being trapped in the middle, the mesosphere is the coldest layer of Earth's atmosphere, with ...

The mesosphere is the third layer of Earth's atmosphere. According to NASA the mesosphere begins just above the stratosphere and extends to approximately 53 miles (85 km) high.

In June 2015, a little-known type of aurora cut a Grand-Canyon-size ozone hole in Earth's mesosphere. Scientists have finally assessed the damage. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

They hope the project will help shed light on some little-explored processes taking place inside our planet's gaseous shroud, including the magnificent northern lights.. Some parts of Earth's ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted underwater in January, it created a plume of ash and water that broke through the third layer of Earth’s atmosphere.

This year, NASA handed out $175,000 to no less than 14 concepts and ideas. We’ve already discussed one of them, the FLUTE, and now it’s time for something that might sound even stranger than a ...

From the ground, Earth’s sky seems boundless and everlasting, but the view from above shows something different—a perilously thin blue line against the black void, all that stands between our ...

The thermosphere extends from the top of the mesosphere to 375 miles above Earth's surface. From there there is another transition layer called the thermopause. Our "atmospheric sandwich" Ray Petelin ...

Look a little higher, however, and the story is completely different. The mesosphere, the layer of sparse air above the stratosphere that reaches nearly to the edge of space, is very much a ...