Artist concept highlighting the novel approach proposed by the 2025 NIAC awarded selection of Photophoretic Propulsion ...

Noctilucent clouds, Earth's highest clouds, shine blue in the twilight sky from late May to August in the northern hemisphere ...

With water covering the majority of our planet, scientists have been wading through ideas to answer a fundamental question: Where did it all come from? A popular theory suggests asteroids or ...

has ambitious plans to not only create human-made shooting stars but to also use them to collect vital climate data in the mesosphere, a layer of Earth’s atmosphere too high for balloons to ...

Scientists have raised concerns about the satellite re-entries in the upper atmosphere or mesosphere which then settle in the stratosphere that houses the Earth’s protective ozone layer. The major ...

The mesosphere, the layer of sparse air above ... balloons and generally too low for instruments on satellites in low Earth orbit to explore. Related: Extremely rare, black 'anti-auroras' paint ...

Ignorosphere dataset spans 19 years, exploring mesosphere dynamics Scientists aim to understand auroras and gravity waves with new data Study reveals links between space weather, ionosphere, and ...

ABSTRACT: The Tonga submarine event refers to the volcanic eruption near the Tonga islands in the South Pacific Ocean, which produced a large plume possibly reaching the stratosphere and mesosphere.

Meteoroids burn up in a part of Earth’s atmosphere called the mesosphere, which is 30 to 50 miles (48 to 80 kilometers) above the ground. Even though the air is thin up there, meteoroids still ...

The mesosphere’s cold temperatures – around -150°F (-101 ... It is like learning a new piece of the puzzle about how Earth’s upper atmosphere and surface weather connect. Before, much of this was ...