Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...

For whatever reason, many weather conspiracy theories have crawled out of the fringes and into mainstream discussions. Over ...

Just Wow.” NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers wrote in simple words to accompany a photo from the International Space Station (ISS) that had caught an ephemeral, cryptic flash over a thunderstorm ...

While orbiting high above North America, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare sight- glowing red lights shimmering in ...

Nichole Ayers, a NASA astronaut, spotted a rare sprite. The red flash occurred above thunderstorms. It happened over Mexico ...

French defense leaders expect the near-space domain to become increasingly contested, similar to low Earth orbit and the ...

A succession of powerful solar eruptions in early May last year triggered the most powerful solar storm to hit Earth in 20 ...

Diffusive equilibrium is an idealized concept, representing a limiting case of the continuity equation for charged particles in the ionosphere. Since plasma diffusion can proceed rather rapidly above ...

The equatorial ionosphere is the part of the ionosphere located above the magnetic equator over a strip of 600 km in the E sublayer located at 100 km altitude. This equatorial ionosphere has a ...

Data from millions of phones has helped produce the most complete map ever made of the ionosphere, part of Earth’s upper atmosphere. This could help us understand disturbances caused by ...