Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment investigation ...

They also want to share what they’re learning about the upper atmosphere by shooting massive amounts of radio waves at it.

Here’s why some people say they hear cracking and popping from an atmospheric event that shouldn’t be able to produce any ...

On November 13, 2020, a pair of European Space Agency spacecraft—Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter—set out to gain a deeper understanding of the Martian ionosphere. Utilizing an advanced ...

Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the sun knocks ...

Red sprites hover between 40 and 55 miles high. Up there, the air is thin, so electric fields can spark gigantic filaments ...

From the ISS, scientists are capturing rare lightning above storms that could impact radio, climate, and safety.

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

Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the Sun knocks electrons off of atoms and molecules, creating charged particles. The Martian ...

Recent studies have highlighted the frequent occurrence of sporadic-E (Es) layers—thin, localized zones of enhanced electron density—especially in high-latitude and polar regions. To address this, a ...

The forest breathes! There is a constant exchange of gases, like carbon dioxide and water vapor, between trees, soils and the atmosphere, and scientists measure these exchanges to know where ...

Some of the ions become trapped in a layer of the atmosphere called the ionosphere, where they collide with gas atoms—primarily oxygen and nitrogen—and "excite" them with extra energy.