If pollen allergies are getting to you, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, ...

Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation ...

A team of scientists captured the sharpest-ever view of the sun's outer layer using a telescope in California. NBC News' Gadi ...

Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

The work focuses on the storm's activity in a region of Earth's ionosphere called the E layer, which sits in the upper atmosphere about 56 miles to 75 miles (90 to 120 kilometers) above sea level.

To be fair, the crew reached one of the highest layers of Earth's atmosphere, one which only a very small percentage of humans can say they've been to. However, the edge of space and the end of ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

That’s changing the atmosphere in ways that threaten the Earth’s protective ozone layer. Observed from Earth, these reentries look like shooting stars, blazing across the sky. However amazing ...

1 He observed that “somewhere in the atmosphere below a height of 15.5 km. the intensity of the ionisation within a closed vessel exposed to the rays goes through a maximum, and then decreases”.

Scientists tracking the lander as it finally began to fall to Earth believe it decayed as it re-entered the atmosphere. EU Space Surveillance and Tracking posted on X saying it "decayed within the ...

Designed to survive a trip to Venus, the aging vehicle is believed to be capable of easily surviving a trip through Earth's atmosphere. NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's ...