The ISR has numerous projects to explore the phenomenology of the Earth's ionosphere, the region of the Earth's upper atmosphere that is dominated by ions and free electrons. Investigations include ...

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has discovered unexpected X and C-shaped structures within Earth's ionosphere, a critical layer for radio communication.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Earth's ionosphere, American space physicist Jeff Baumgardner has claimed. Falcon 9, a reusable two ...

The new study revealed that the Moon’s ionosphere exhibits unexpectedly high electron densities when it enters the Earth’s geomagnetic tail. This finding sheds new light on how plasma behaves ...