NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected, and unexplainable, C-shapes and X-shaped formations in part of Earth's atmosphere ...

NASA scientists have discovered mysterious shapes in the upper layer of the atmosphere ... charged during the day when sunlight hits the Earth, causing its energy to knock electrons out of ...

Computer models suggest it could be that churning in the lower atmosphere can actually pull down some of the plasma, leading to the merging of the crests into an X shape even when there are no ...

Each day, radio signals from key communications and navigation satellites travel freely through a layer of Earth ... shapes, Laskar said. Computer models point to changes in the lower atmosphere ...

But the spin of our home planet causes it to be squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator, making the true shape of the Earth an ... The lowest layer of the atmosphere is known as the ...

"This planet's atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works -- not just on Earth ... in separate layers, forming a map of the atmosphere's 3D structure.

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a ...

"These findings present the opportunity to explore further how much impact different wavelengths of light will have on different layers of the Earth's atmosphere and they also have implications ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D ... s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works—not just on Earth ...