A layer of charged particles, called the ionosphere, surrounds Earth, extending from about 50 to 400 miles above the surface of the planet. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Keep reading to learn more about Earth's different layers, its atmosphere, and what makes the "blue planet" unique. Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...

The findings, based on long-term atmospheric data, offer a fresh perspective on the behaviors of Mars' middle atmosphere, highlighting fundamental differences from Earth's. The study applied ...

In part one, we went over what exactly the Skew-T diagram is ... A stable atmosphere is usually when the layers above the surface of the Earth are warm enough that a parcel of air can’t rise ...