When a satellite disintegrates in the upper atmosphere, it does not just disappear. Rather, it deposits a record of aluminum ...

Tropospheric scintillation on Earth-space paths greatly increases at low elevation angles and/or higher carrier frequencies, may impair low margin systems, and can interfere with the power control ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

NASA’s GOLD mission has made a discovery that is changing how scientists understand Earth’s upper atmosphere. For the first time ever, GOLD has seen X-shaped patterns in the ionosphere—a ...

Signals from navigation satellites, radio broadcasts, and distant spacecraft all squeeze through a thin, electrified veil in Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere. Stretching from about 50 miles to ...