According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets dramatically thinner at a point known as the Kármán line, roughly 100 kilometers up. Objects that orbit the ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

The Northern Lights could be visible as far south as New York and Idaho tonight due to a "coronal hole" sending streams of ...

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement. "It does ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Earth's atmosphere after being stranded at the ISS for more than nine months due ...

Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth’s surface also cools the upper parts of the atmosphere where space starts and satellites zip around in low orbit, That cooling also makes ...