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They also want to share what they’re learning about the upper atmosphere by shooting massive amounts of radio waves at it.
Researchers in China have developed a way of locating giant "equatorial plasma bubbles" in the ionosphere by analyzing the ...
Only a handful of space missions are confirmed for July, including a NASA-ISRO satellite and SpaceX’s first launch under a ...
Aurora borealis does pop and cackle not because of the Northern lights, but because of the atmosphere's electrification.
In the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere—where weather occurs—there spins a polar vortex that circles the globe year round, a jet stream that’s also sometimes referred to as ...
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...
A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...
A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research ...
The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...
These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...
A recent study led by NASA has revealed a surprising connection between Earth’s magnetic field and the oxygen levels that ...
NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous ...