Early Tuesday morning, a delicate, wispy cloud type rarely seen formed over western Montana, lighting up the pre-dawn sky.

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 results, dubbed JAWARA, offer the longest-ever look at Earth's mesosphere. With 19 years' worth of data (September 2004 to December 2023), the model paints a picture of how the mesosphere ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...