With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...

The past few centuries have yielded an abundance of information about Earth's atmosphere ... to the vast amounts of heat absorbed by the thermosphere. Sandwiched between those layers, though ...

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...

These create additional ionization and heating in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, leading to radio blackout ... and impacts of solar eruptions on the coupled magnetosphere–ionosphere–thermosphere system ...

Near space is the region of Earth's atmosphere between 20 and 100 kilometers above sea level, encompassing portions of the stratosphere, mesosphere and lower thermosphere. It is above the top ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Its plunge back to Earth through the atmosphere may have generated 45.5 metric tons of metal oxides and 40 metric tons of nitrogen oxides, according to University College London atmospheric ...

The temperature can change from very hot to very cold, depending on sunlight exposure. It can range from 1,700°C (3,092°F) in the sun to -270°C (-454°F) in the shade.

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.