One of the three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Photo by Danielle Johnson/NASA Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket ...

High up in the atmosphere, near the boundary of space, a dazzling, fleeting flash of red sometimes briefly appears above a thunderstorm before evaporating away. These events, which occur far above ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - I like to think of the atmosphere as sort of a big sandwich since the atmosphere isn't just one layer. It has many distinct layers from the ground all the way into space. This ...

There are five major layers in the Atmosphere. Each one of the layers has unique details. Starting from the earth's surface and working our way high up in the atmosphere, we have the Troposphere, ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Harvard SEAS researchers have tested and validated lightweight nanofabricated structures that can passively float in the mesophere, which is about 45 miles above Earth’s surface. The devices levitate ...

The past few centuries have yielded an abundance of information about Earth's atmosphere, from the weather that manifests in the troposphere and stratosphere to the vast amounts of heat absorbed by ...

Bob Dylan wasn’t singing about upper atmospheric dynamics when he wrote the song, but scientists at the South Pole agree that the answer is indeed blowing in the wind. The group is studying meteoroid ...

Reusable space technology has led to a rise in space transportation at a lower cost, as popularized by commercial spaceflights of companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. What is poorly understood, ...

This infographic shows the multiple layers of our atmosphere, extending from the ground up into space, and how the new dataset compares in coverage to those currently available. A team led by ...